bacterial infection

Several more national retailers have joined Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in pulling a batch of powdered infant formula from their shelves after a newborn who consumed it apparently died of a rare bacterial infection.

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(Van Andel Research Institute) Most of us have had a doctor prescribe an antibiotic for a stubborn bacterial infection, or for a cut that gets infected.

However, prescribing an antibiotic to fight cancer? In fact, anti-cancer antibiotics have been used since the 1950s to successfully treat several forms of cancer, but often the side effects limit the duration they can be given to a patient.

(Penn State) Hydrocephalus in Ugandan children and other developing countries is seasonal, linked to farm animals and in part, caused by previous bacterial infection, according to an international team of researchers from Uganda and the United States, who believe that the best approach to this problem is prevention.

A marker of bacterial infection can safely guide antibiotic treatment decisions for patients with lower respiratory tract infections, researchers said.

CHICAGO (MedPage Today) -- Gastroenteritis caused by Salmonella or Campylobacter infection may predispose patients to inflammatory bowel disease, a large, population-based study showed.

(Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore) Singapore scientists identify the protein, WIP1, as the molecular "brake" that curbs severe inflammation in the body.

The findings may prove relevant to developing more effective treatments against sepsis, the severe inflammatory condition caused by bacterial infection that afflicts many patients in intensive care units.