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A child who has never been vaccinated against pertussis, or whooping cough, is 13 times more likely to suffer from an infection of Bordetella pertussis than is a child who is up-to-date on his or her vaccines. But new evidence from a decadelong study at Kaiser Permanente shows that vaccinated children were five times more likely to suffer from whooping cough if it had been more than three years since their last vaccine dose.
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News Medical Life Sciences
Researchers at Helmholtz Zentrum München and the Technical University of Munich, working in collaboration with researchers at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf and the University Hospital Heidelberg, have for the first time succeeded in conquering a chronic infection with the hepatitis B virus in a mouse model. The team showed in its publication, that T-cell therapy can provide a permanent cure. Up to now it has not been possible to fully control the virus.
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Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute via ScienceDaily
Researchers have mapped the most common bacterial cause of pneumonia around the world and revealed how these bacteria evolve in response to vaccination. Scientists from the Wellcome Sanger Institute and their collaborators carried out a global genomic survey of Streptococcus pneumoniae, discovering 621 strains across more than fifty countries. Published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, the study will help predict which strains will be important for new pneumococcal vaccines.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention via Infection Control Today
Bats are responsible for roughly seven in 10 rabies deaths among people who are infected with the rabies virus in the United States, possibly because people may not know of the risk bats pose, according to the Vital Signs report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The large percentage of deaths tied to bats is particularly striking since bats account for just a third of the 5,000 rabid animals reported each year in the U.S.
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The miniiSED™ is the newest addition to the iSED™ family of ESR analyzers from ALCOR Scientific. The miniiSED™ is a single position, fully automated ESR analyzer that works directly from the primary EDTA tube and produces an ESR result in just 15 seconds. The miniiSED™ is the ideal ESR analyzer for small laboratories, POL’s and emergency clinics.
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American Chemical Society via Lab Manager
Killing tumor cells while sparing their normal counterparts is a central challenge of cancer chemotherapy. If scientists could put a “homing beacon” in tumors, they could attract these medicines and reduce side effects caused by the drugs acting on healthy cells.
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Infection Control Today
In a prospective hygiene intervention study, Frey, et al. consecutively sampled tablet computers exclusively used in a high-resource general internal medicine tertiary care setting with high routine hygiene measures. The researchers sought to examine the change in colonizing bacteria on tablet computers before and after the introduction of a mandatory twice-daily tablet disinfection intervention.
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Five Levels of recovery with LGC Maine Standards’ family of liquid-ready, VALIDATE® Hemostasis products: D-Dimer, Fibrinogen, Heparin Anti-Xa. Meeting calibration verification regulatory requirements for calibrated test methods has never been easier.
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With the demand for STAT samples at an all-time high, Drucker Diagnostics’ DASH centrifuges make reducing TAT easier than ever. Choose our set-and-lock Apex models for maximum repeatability or monitor cycle status to the last second with the Flex 12’s digital countdown. Push-button operation, lid lighting system, and more.
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Dark Daily
Hospital chargemaster prices can vary dramatically among hospitals that share the same healthcare markets. That’s what California Healthline found in a recent survey of hospitals in Los Angeles and Oakland, California. The price differences were huge and could keep patients located in certain areas within those health systems from accessing critical healthcare services.
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Consultant 360
Having an infection in the first year of life increases one’s risk of developing inflammatory bowel disease later in life, according to findings from a population-based study. To analyze the relationship between critical events in the first year of life and the development of IBD, the researchers studied data from the University of Manitoba IBD Epidemiology Database of individuals from Manitoba, Canada, in whom IBD had been diagnosed from 1984 through 2010, as well as their healthy counterparts.
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Medical News Today
New research in mice repurposes a drug used for blood disorders to starve antibiotic-resistant fungus of iron, thus halving the survival rate of the yeast. Scientists have found an innovative way to half the survival rate of Candida albicans. Each year in the U.S., at least 2 million people acquire an infection that is resistant to antibiotics, and 23,000 people die as a result.
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SeraSub® is a synthetic serum for use as a component in preparing standards and controls for in-vitro diagnostic tests. Learn more
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Multiple Sclerosis News Today
Exosomes — tiny vesicles secreted by cells — collected from bone marrow stem cells and injected into a mouse model of multiple sclerosis helped to treat the disease, a study reports.
Specifically, this treatment eased myelin loss and neuroinflammation in the mice, and improved motor function, the researchers said.
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