Category Archives: Infection

Contribution of medico-administrative databases to health vigilance: example of post-oocyte retrieval infections.

Can we monitor post-oocyte retrieval infections in the French national health data system to complement the French ART vigilance system?Medico-administrative databases provide a more comprehensive view of post-oocyte retrieval infections and can be used to detect abnormal increases in frequency and outlier ART centers as a complementary tool to the ART vigilance system.The various studies […]

TMP-SMX reduces serious infections ‘by about half’ in patients with GPA using rituximab

November 13, 2023 3 min read Add topic to email alerts Receive an email when new articles are posted on Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . <button type="button" class="btn btn-primary" data-loading-text="Loading ” data-action=”subscribe”> Subscribe Added to email alerts We were unable to process your request. […]

COVID-19 can ruin your sleep in many different ways—here’s why

Six weeks after a mild case of COVID-19 early in the pandemic, Erika Thornes started waking up every night between 2 and 3 a.m. Unable to fall back asleep, she would listen to podcasts, read, and scroll through Twitter before finally dozing off by 4 or 5 a.m. Thornes, the mother of three teenagers in […]

Fatty acid production and its impact on severe and fatal respiratory viral infections

Add to my calendar 16/11/2023 12:00 pm 16/11/2023 1:00 pm Australia/Melbourne Fatty acid production and its impact on severe and fatal respiratory viral infections Doherty Institute Auditorium, 792 Elizabeth Street DD/MM/YYYY At this event Dr Brendan Chua, Research Fellow from the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, will present Fatty acid production and its […]

Why does COVID-19 cause brain fog? Scientists may finally have an answer.

When scientists infected brain organoids—pinhead-size bits of brain tissue grown in the lab—with the virus that causes COVID, they found that not only does it spread in neurons in the brain, it also accelerates the destruction of connections between neurons—called synapses—that are essential for communication. These discoveries expand understanding of how SARS-CoV-2 can damage the […]

Frequency of respiratory virus-associated infection among children and adolescents from a tertiary-care hospital in Mexico City

Abstract Acute respiratory infections (ARIs) are a major cause of morbidity and mortality among children. The causative pathogens show geographic and seasonal variations. We retrospectively evaluated the frequency and seasonality of respiratory pathogens in children and adolescents (age: 0–19 years) with ARIs treated between January 1, 2021, and March 31, 2022, at a single center in […]