Vibrio vulnificus es una bacteria que causa enfermedades relacionadas con los alimentos e infecciones de heridas. Cada año se registran en EE.UU. unas 100 infecciones por V vulnificus. Sin embargo, las personas con infecciones leves no suelen someterse a pruebas de detección de V vulnificus, por lo que se desconoce […]
Shortly after COVID-19 vaccines first became available, Tae Chung, MD, noticed something unusual at the Johns Hopkins Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) program, which he directs. Seven patients newly diagnosed with POTS were either medical students or physicians. They had no recent history of SARS-CoV-2 infection, which, research has suggested, […]
Esta es una primicia prometedora para el tratamiento de infecciones específicas resistente a los antibióticos con un bacteriófago específico. Este [estudio] es el primer caso de terapia con fagos para el tratamiento de un organismo en particular. El principal depredador del mundo microbiano es un tipo de virus llamado bacteriófago. […]
Healthy pet dogs and cats could be transmitting both antibiotic-resistant bacteria and genes involved in bacterial resistance to their owners, according to new research from the UK and Portugal. The preprint, but peer reviewed, study findings, to be presented at this year’s European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases […]
