Latest infectious disease newsMedicineWorld.Org brings daily infectious disease news from various sources to keep you updated on the latest events in the world on this topic. Medicineworld infectious disease news service is the most comprehensive infectious disease news service on the internet. We keep an archive of previous few days of news on this site. Please go down through the list to find the older news itemsGene signatures for scleroderma- September 19, 2008 Distinct genetic profiles can discern different groups of patients with scleroderma, a vexing autoimmune disease in which the body turns against itself, Dartmouth Medical School scientists report. Their discovery of distinguishing molecular subtypes within the disease offers new insight into the complexity of a poorly understood and hard to treat illness and opens a window for better diagnosis and targeted therapies........http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/7-2008/gene-signatures-for-scleroderma.html Tuberculosis drug shows promise against latent bacteria- September 19, 2008 A new study has shown that an investigational drug (R207910, currently in clinical trials against multi-drug resistant tuberculosis strains) is quite effective at killing latent bacteria. This revelation suggests that R207910 may lead to improved and shortened therapys for this globally prevalent disease........http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/9-2008/tuberculosis-drug-shows-promise.html New discovery could lead to an improved influenza vaccine- September 19, 2008 Findings just reported in the scientific journal Immunity by scientists at the Trudeau Institute shed new light on how a previously-unknown messaging mechanism within the human immune system prompts specific influenza-fighting cells to the lung airways during an infection. Infections from the influenza virus are responsible for hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations and as a number of as 40,000 deaths in the United States each year. Eventhough scientists have known for some time that white...http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/7-2008/improved-influenza-vaccine.html MRSA carrier state increases risk of infection- September 19, 2008 Patients harboring methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) for long periods of time continue to be at increased risk of MRSA infection and death, as per a new study in the July 15 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, currently available online. MRSA is an antibiotic-resistant bacterium that can cause a variety of serious infections. The bacterium most usually colonizes the nostrils, eventhough it can be found in other body sites. Most research has focused on people who are newly...http://medicineworld.org/cancer/lead/7-2008/mrsa-carrier-state-increases-risk-of-infection... |