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redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Potentially deadly staph infections could be treated with a drug currently used by those who have been infected by HIV, according to researchers from the New York University (NYU) School of Medicine. In the study, senior author and NYU assistant professor of microbiology Dr. Victor J. Torres and colleagues discovered that maraviroc, an antiretroviral drug used to treat those who have contracted the AIDS-causing lentivirus, could...
High doses of vitamin B3 enhance immune system's infection-fighting ability, study shows Cedars-Sinai researchers have found that a common vitamin may have the potential to provide a powerful weapon to fight certain "superbugs," antibiotic-resistant staph infections that health experts see as a threat to public health. The research, published in the September 2012 edition of The Journal of Clinical Investigation, found that high doses of the nicotinamide form of vitamin B3 stimulated a...
Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have developed a new laboratory test that can rapidly identify the bacterium responsible for staph infections. This new test takes advantage of unique isotopic labeling combined with specific bacteriophage amplification to rapidly identify Staphylococcus aureus. Quickly and accurately detecting infections caused by S. aureus is critical because the pathogenic bacterium causes a...
Researchers have determined the structure and mechanism of an enzyme that performs the crucial first step in the formation of cholesterol and a key virulence factor in staph bacteria.Chemists at the University of Illinois and collaborators in Taiwan studied a type of enzyme found in humans, plants, fungi, parasites, and many bacteria that begins the synthesis of triterpenes "“ one of the most abundant and most ancient classes of molecules. Triterpenes are precursors to steroids such as...
(IVANHOE NEWSWIRE)-- No, this is not the title of another Stephen King masterpiece, this is real life. Staphylococcus aureus (staph) bacteria feed on blood. According to researchers, it turns out that these microbial vampires prefer the taste of human blood. They need the iron that's hidden away inside red blood cells to grow and cause infections.Staph favors human hemoglobin "“ the oxygen-carrying protein that contains iron "“ over hemoglobin from other animals. The findings help explain...
Staphylococcus aureus bacteria bind best to human hemoglobin"Staph" bacteria feed on blood. They need the iron that's hidden away inside red blood cells to grow and cause infections. It turns out that these microbial vampires prefer the taste of human blood, Vanderbilt University scientists have discovered.The researchers report in the Dec. 16 issue of Cell Host & Microbe that Staphylococcus aureus (staph) favors human hemoglobin "“ the oxygen-carrying protein that contains...
(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Two genes discovered in mice may help identify why some people are more likely to develop potentially deadly staph infections."If you know, up front, that a patient is at risk for developing a Staphylococcus aureus infection, then you will be better able to manage them clinically, give them preventive measures and treat them more aggressively if they become ill," Vance Fowler, M.D., MHS, an associate professor of infectious diseases in the Duke Department of...
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Aug. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Maryland Industrial Partnerships Program (MIPS), an initiative of the Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (Mtech) at the University of Maryland, has awarded $3.3 million to 16 teams of Maryland companies and faculty developing commercially promising technology products, program officials announce today. All funding goes to the faculty members conducting the research and development on company products. "Programs such as MIPS are...
