Public Release: 19-May-2017 Colorado State University Caption Researchers at Colorado State University infected mosquitoes in the lab with multiple kinds of viruses to learn more about the transmission of more than one infection from a single mosquito bite. Credit: John… Read More ›
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Scientists discover uncommon superbug strain in greater Houston area
Public Release: 16-May-2017 Houston Methodist Houston Methodist Research Institute scientists used genome sequencing to discover that an otherwise rare strain of a superbug was found in more than one-third of the Houston patients studied. This strain is resistant to many… Read More ›
Mysterious outbreak of Elephantiasis in western Uganda linked to decades of walking barefoot in volcanic soils
Public Release: 10-Apr-2017 Surprising finding highlights less known cause of debilitating elephantiasis Burness Oakbrook Terrace, Ill. (April 10, 2017)–A puzzling surge in western Uganda patients diagnosed with a painful, disfiguring skin condition known as elephantiasis was caused not by the… Read More ›
Cross-species jumps may play unexpectedly big role in virus evolution
Public Release: 9-Mar-2017 Comparing host and virus evolutionary trees reveals new insights into emergence of viral diseases PLOS IMAGE: Tanglegrams of rooted phylogenetic trees for each virus family. Credit: Geoghegan JL, et al. (2017) On occasion, a virus… Read More ›
More mosquito species than previously thought may transmit Zika
Public Release: 28-Feb-2017 University of Georgia IMAGE: Michelle V. Evans is a doctoral student in ecology and conservation at UGA. Credit: UGA Athens, Ga. – Zika virus could be transmitted by more mosquito species than those currently known,… Read More ›
Worm identified as potential cause for mysterious seizure disorder, Nodding Syndrome (NS)
Public Release: 15-Feb-2017 American Association for the Advancement of Science A new study reveals how a parasitic worm can trigger the onset of a mysterious and incurable childhood seizure disorder. Nodding Syndrome (NS) is a progressive and often… Read More ›
Ebolaviruses need very few mutations to cause disease in new host species
Public Release: 15-Feb-2017 Kent researchers have identified how few mutations it can take for Ebolaviruses to adapt to affect previously resistant species University of Kent IMAGE: Ebolavirus Protein VP24 is illustrated. Credit: University of Kent Kent researchers have… Read More ›
Disease ‘superspreaders’ were driving cause of 2014 Ebola epidemic
Public Release: 13-Feb-2017 Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. – A new study about the overwhelming importance of “superspreaders” in some infectious disease epidemics has shown that in the catastrophic 2014-15 Ebola epidemic in West Africa, about 3 percent… Read More ›
How African salmonella strains are evolving to become more dangerous
Public Release: 8-Feb-2017 Cell Press IMAGE: This image shows lymph nodes infected with ST313 Salmonella. Credit: Carden et al./Cell Host & Microbe 2017 Salmonella infections are typically the culprit behind food poisoning outbreaks, but in sub-Saharan Africa, they… Read More ›
Antibiotics shown to stimulate bad bacteria growth by 300%
Public Release: 30-Jan-2017 University of Exeter IMAGE: These are two types of lab E. coli smeared across an agar plate. The green ones are drug resistant and the blue ones are not. Credit: The University of Exeter The growth… Read More ›
