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E-mail: tiborv@uic.edu Received 1 March 2009; Revised 1 June 2009; Accepted 11 July 2009; Published online 6 November 2009.

Washing your hands and using sanitizers is a good way to prevent infection by the H1N1 virus, but using chemicals is a double-edged sword because we are killing both the bad bacteria and the good bacteria, says a Fredericton microbiologist.

US vets say a household cat has tested positive for swine flu - the first known case in the world of the new pandemic strain spreading to the feline population.

Lack of Immunotoxicity After Regional Intravenous Delivery of rAAV to Nonhuman Primate Skeletal Muscle 1INSERM UMR 649, CHU de Nantes, Universit de Nantes, Facult de Mdecine, Nantes, France 3INSERM UMR 643, CHU de Nantes, Institut de Transplantation et de Recherche en Transplantation, Facult de Mdecine, Universit de Nantes, Nantes, France 4Service ...

Share + Nov 2, 2009 10:56 pm US/Central Hand sanitizer may be the hottest fashion accessory of 2009.

With flu vaccination season in full swing, research from the University of Rochester Medical Center cautions that use of many common pain killers - Advil, Tylenol, aspirin - at the time of injection may blunt the effect of the shot and have a negative effect on the immune system.

Bacteria that cause chronic lung infections can communicate with each other to form a deadly shield against the body's natural defenses.

M J Riedel 1 , D F Gaddy 2 , A Asadi 1 , P D Robbins 2 and T J Kieffer 1 1Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Medicine, Departments of Cellular & Physiological Sciences and Surgery, Life Sciences Institute, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of ...

Nipah and Hendra viruses are found in Pteropid fruit bats and are characterized by their recent emergence as agents capable of causing illness and death in domestic animals and humans.

Today's Question: "Is the H1N1 virus airborne? I've searched the Internet and get completely conflicting results." Answer from Dr.

NOTRE DAME, IN a * The microbiology class at Saint Mary's College found the sanitizers are a great substitute when soap and water are not available.

Extending the transposable payload limit of Sleeping Beauty using the Herpes Simplex Virus / SB amplicon-vector platform 1Departments of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, USA 2Center for Neural Development and Disease, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, ...

ASM Recommends Nasopharyngeal Flocked Swabs As The Specimen Of Choice For Influenza A Testing Preparing for this flu season, the American Society for Microbiology PSAB Committee on Laboratory Practices has recently published a new interim algorithm providing guidance to clinical laboratories responsible for testing patients with respiratory illness ...

Searching for Persistence of Infection in Lyme Disease is a highly innovative Bench-to- Bedside research project that could have an extraordinarily significant impact on the field of Lyme disease.

The "Father of Microbiology," Anton van Leeuwenhoek was not a trained scientist, yet he made some of the most astounding scientific discoveries of his time.

Canada's minister of health, Leona Aglukkaq, announced that the H1N1 flu vaccine has been approved, Friday, October 23, 2009.

A new study found genetic variations in mice affect their susceptibility to and severity of H5N1 avian influenza A virus infection suggesting that humans who contract the virus may be genetically predisposed.

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CDC scientist Scott Smith manipulates a flask of cells used for experiments with live virus in a Biosafety Level 4 lab.

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