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Infectious diseases

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World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day: Fighting conditions of poverty

January 30, 2020January 30, 2020Global Health, Healthcare, Infectious diseases, National School of Tropical Medicine, Tropical medicine

Today, the World Health Organization designates 20 parasitic and related infections as neglected tropical diseases. They represent the world’s most common health afflictions of people

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From The Labs 

One atom can make a difference: Hydrogen-bonding pairing helps design better drugs to neutralize gut bacterial infections

April 15, 2016Biochemistry, Infectious diseases

IP6, the natural inhibitor or ligand of Clostridium difficile’s toxin, binds weakly to the toxin. This results in the toxin remaining active (center figure). Changing

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From The Labs 

Less may be more in treating patients with bacteria in the urine

June 15, 2015algorithm, antibiotic, catheter, Infectious diseases

By Dipali Pathak When doctors are confronted by the dilemma of patient who has bacteria in the urine but no symptoms to indicate that, they

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From The Labs 

Baylor College of Medicine to develop Emergency Smart Pod

April 15, 2015Infectious diseases, public health

By Dipali Pathak Baylor College of Medicine’s Emergency Smart Pod was one of 12 ideas selected for President Barack Obama’s challenge to find innovative tools

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From The Labs 

A matter of health — The promise of vaccination

February 17, 2015Infectious diseases, public health

By Ruth SoRelle, M.P.H. My mother was a nurse, and in the small Texas town where I grew up, that made her a medical expert.

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From The Labs 

Image of the Month: Cryo-electron microscopy of Venezuelan equine encephalitis

December 2, 2014encephalitis, genome, Infectious diseases, Microscopy, molecular biology, structural biology
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From The Labs 

A bacterial signal activates the immune system against rotavirus

December 2, 2014Gastrointestinal diseases, Infectious diseases, public health

A bacterial signal activates the immune system against rotavirus By Ruth SoRelle, M.P.H. For three decades, Dr. Mary Estes, professor of molecular virology and microbiology

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From The Labs 

Ebola not the first disease to frighten the public

November 4, 2014A Matter of Health, Ebola, HIV/AIDS, Infectious diseases, polio, public health

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. – George Santayana  The current furor over Ebola, a viral infection, and the few

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