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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.

Mad rantings about politics, evolution, and microbiology. Comment policy: say what you want, but back it up with an email address.

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

Mad rantings about politics, evolution, and microbiology. Comment policy: say what you want, but back it up with an email address.

To reduce the risk of the H1N1 virus mutating, livestock workers were pressed Tuesday to get their flu shots following the discovery of a turkey flock with the illness.

Main Category: Immune System / Vaccines Also Included In: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Article Date: 19 Oct 2009 Food and water around the world could soon become safer for human consumption thanks to a new cattle vaccine created by University of Saskatchewan graduate student David Asper.

E-mail: mgold@interchange.ubc.ca Received 6 March 2009; Revised 6 August 2009; Accepted 30 August 2009; Published online 19 October 2009.

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Main Category: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Also Included In: Nutrition / Diet Article Date: 17 Oct 2009 The fact that they eat a lot - and often - may explain why most people and other mammals are protected from the majority of fungal pathogens, according to research from Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University.

The perception that antibiotic resistance is primarily the undesirable consequence of antibiotic abuse or misuse is a view that is simplistic and inaccurate, according to a recent report by the American Academy of Microbiology.

NASA Mars exploration program is planning for various future Mars missions. Shown here is the astrobiology field laboratory that would conduct a robotic search for life.

The perception that antibiotic resistance is primarily the undesirable consequence of antibiotic abuse or misuse is a view that is simplistic and inaccurate, according to a recent report by the American Academy of Microbiology.

A new poll that suggests more than a quarter of Quebec workers would go to the office with the H1N1 virus illustrates the urgent need for a new workplace culture that promotes a common-sense approach to the battle against swine flu, experts say.

Main Category: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Also Included In: Flu / Cold / SARS ; Swine Flu Article Date: 15 Oct 2009 - 2:00 PDT When people travel, bacteria and other infectious agents travel with them.

WAYNE.GLOWACKI@FREEPRESS.MB.CA Dr. Frank Plummer, scientific director of the microbiology lab, shows federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq a gene chip prior to the announcement of support for five new research projects.

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health have awarded $5 million to an interdisciplinary group of Harvard researchers to launch the "Harvard-wide Program on Antibiotic Resistance." Headed by Michael S. Gilmore, Ph.D., , the group is uniting Harvard institutions in the fight against ...

Via The Standard : Pig flu mutation checks should be allowed to fly . Excerpt: Hong Kong's pig population should be monitored for human swine flu , experts say, as the virus could possibly mutate again into a deadlier pandemic strain.

HIV drug discovery efforts have met with little success in finding compounds that interact with an important HIV virulence factor, called Nef, because it lacks biochemical activity that can be directly measured, explained Thomas E. Smithgall, Ph.D., William S. McEllroy Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, and ...

The experts agree: proper hand hygiene is critical for preventing the transfer of pathogenic microorganisms.

Hong Kong's pig population should be monitored for human swine flu , experts say, as the virus could possibly mutate again into a deadlier pandemic strain.

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Worried about the spread of swine flu? Join the crowd. Already, there are reports coming from schools across the country that kids are being diagnosed with swine flu .

A new super bug that causes acute ear infections in children has emerged that is immune to all antibiotics currently approved for children.

A strain of yeast that thrives on turning sugar cane into ethanol for biofuel has had its genome completely sequenced by researchers at Duke University Medical Center.

University of Otago molecular microbiology doctoral student Darnell Kennedy swabs for saliva as part of research into bite marks.

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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has discovered the H5N1 avian flu in two Manitoba birds, but officials were quick to point out it's not the same as the deadly strain causing concern in Asia.

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A bacterium possibly linked to Crohn's disease could be lurking in wild animals.

Andrew Pekosz, an associate professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, answers some questions about the safety of the H1N1 vaccine.

Main Category: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Article Date: 05 Oct 2009 - 4:00 PDT Mandatory reporting of Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia should be introduced to help improved health care practices and save lives, according to an editorial published in the Medical Journal of Australia.

"While condoms are excellent at preventing the transmission of HIV, it's often difficult for women to negotiate their use," says principal investigator Betsy C. Herold, M.D., professor of pediatrics, of microbiology & immunology, and of obstetrics & gynecology and women's health at Einstein.

Two internationally renowned experts on evolution have been hired to anchor the new Microbial Diversity Institute at Yale's West Campus.

The National Institutes of Health has awarded Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University a four-year, $7.2 million grant to develop a microbicide-releasing vaginal ring to prevent HIV transmission.

If you come down with a nasty cough, a fever over 100 and other flulike symptoms this fall, do you have the new 2009 H1N1 pandemic virus or the regular, get-it-every-year seasonal flu? Your doctor might take a culture, but, chances are, you might never know the results.

Main Category: Tropical Diseases Also Included In: Immune System / Vaccines Article Date: 01 Oct 2009 - 0:00 PDT A deadly disease, malaria afflicts 350-500 million people worldwide each year and kills more than a million people.

The optimal way to control swine flu, the new H1N1 virus that emerged as a global threat in 2009, is to vaccinate children with the planned H1N1 flu shot, says the co-director of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases.

They said the agency looked at data from hospitalized pandemic flu cases after learning of another, still unpublished study that seems to indicate people who got a flu shot last year had double the risk of catching H1N1 flu compared to unvaccinated people.