Category Archives: Infection

Abstract This study assessed the association between COVID-19 vaccines, SARS-CoV-2 infection and the risk of thrombocytopenia and venous thromboembolism (VTE). This self-controlled case series study used hospital records between 1st February 2021 and 28th February 2022 linked to the national immunisation registry and COVID-19 surveillance data in Malaysia. Conditional Poisson regression was used to estimate […]

The UK Government has committed £5million in seed funding to support a joint Imperial initiative to fight antimicrobial resistance. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has announced that £5million will be made available to the Fleming Centre – a partnership between Imperial College London and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. The announcement was made in the […]

Abstract Amphibian skin harbors microorganisms that are associated with the fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), which causes chytridiomycosis, one of the most significant wildlife diseases known. This pathogen originated in Asia, where diverse Bd lineages exist; hence, native amphibian hosts have co-existed with Bd over long time periods. Determining the nuances of this co-existence is […]

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT 22 November 2023 Sarah Crunkhorn Sarah Crunkhorn .readcube-buybox { display: none !important;} There is an urgent need for new therapeutic approaches for drug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA), a gram-negative pathogen that frequently causes severe infections, including pneumonia and sepsis. Now, writing in Cell, Simonis et al. identify human antibodies targeting the PA type III […]

Abstract The continuing emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants highlights the need to update COVID-19 vaccine compositions. However, immune imprinting induced by vaccination based on the ancestral (hereafter referred to as WT) strain would compromise the antibody response to Omicron-based boosters1,2,3,4,5. Vaccination strategies to counter immune imprinting are critically needed. Here we investigated the degree and dynamics […]

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) – Antibiotic resistance is a growing world health crisis that could turn simple infections into deadly ones. We first alerted you to a major announcement last week where students at NWTC found a bacteria at Pamperin Park that could lead to the creation of new antibiotics. Medical experts say if we […]

At least four people in four counties have become ill, two of them hospitalized, after contracting salmonella linked to fresh and frozen cantaloupe, according to a statement released Monday by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services. The state did not specify the Wisconsin counties. Several cantaloupes and cantaloupe-containing products have been recalled recently due to […]

At least two people in Wisconsin have been hospitalized and two other Wisconsinites have fallen ill from a salmonella outbreak linked to contaminated cantaloupes suspected to have sickened dozens across the country, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services said Tuesday. Wisconsin health officials are urging people not to eat or serve cantaloupe products that were […]

U.S. health officials are warning consumers not to eat certain whole and cut cantaloupes and pre-cut fruit products linked to an outbreak of Salmonella poisoning. At least 43 people in 15 states, including Wisconsin, have been infected in the outbreak announced Friday, including 17 people who were hospitalized. At least four people in four Wisconsin […]