Two Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)-based research teams, along with a group from the University of California at San Diego, have discovered that animals have a previously unknown system for detecting and responding to pathogens and toxins. In three papers published in the journals Cell and...
A group of Chinese and Australian scientists have developed a handheld, battery-powered plasma-producing device that can rid skin of bacteria in an instant. The device could be used in ambulance emergency calls, natural disaster sites, military combat operations and many other instances where...
Scientists of the Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITG) discovered a parasite that not only had developed resistance against a common medicine, but at the same time had become better in withstanding the human immune system. With some exaggeration: medical practice helped in developing a superbug...
Results of an eight-month hospital study, "Room Decontamination with UV Radiation," were published in the October 2010 issue of "Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology." The study evaluated the ability of an automated UV device, Tru-D, to decontaminate patient rooms contaminated with MRSA...
I'm doing a research project for my microbiology class and I need to find an interesting disease that affects the respiratory system that's cause by a specific pathogen.
The diseases that are already taken are whooping cough, SARS, RSV, Anthrax, and a bunch of fungal diseases.
I'm looking for...
Can you theoretically become infected with a blood born pathogen if you become in contact with it and it lays on your skin? If you wash your skin with hot water and soap is it possible to become infected because the pores become open when you use hot water? I always understood that infection...