Pneumonia News
May 16, 2024
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Dec. 18, 2023 Researchers have found an inexpensive tool that may help reduce rates of pneumonia for hospitalized patients -- and it comes with bristles on one end. A new study examined whether daily toothbrushing among hospitalized patients is associated with ...
Nov. 28, 2023 A research team has successfully developed a novel pneumococcal vaccine by combining the team's proprietary mucosal vaccine technology with pneumococcal surface proteins that can cover a wide range of serotypes. Experiments were conducted using mice ...
Nov. 28, 2023 A research team has successfully developed a novel pneumococcal vaccine by combining the team's proprietary mucosal vaccine technology with pneumococcal surface proteins that can cover a wide range of serotypes. Experiments were conducted using mice ...
Oct. 2, 2023 An evolutionary gateway which helps pneumonia cells become resistant to antibiotics has been ...
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Sep. 12, 2023 Pneumonia is an infection of the lung alveoli caused by bacteria, viruses or fungi. It is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality ...
Apr. 25, 2023 Typically T cells of the immune system respond to a specific feature (antigen) of a microbe, thereby generating protective immunity. Scientists have discovered an exception to this rule. Namely, a ...
Researchers Uncover New Differences in Bacteria's Sugar Coat to Aid Pneumococcal Vaccine Development
Apr. 17, 2023 Many disease-causing bacteria like Streptococcus pneumoniae (S. pneumoniae) are encased in a sugar layer called the capsular polysaccharide (CPS). ...
Mar. 16, 2023 Pneumococcal disease leads to over three million hospitalizations and hundreds of thousands of deaths annually. A new study suggests that the ...
Sep. 22, 2022 Engineers have developed microscopic robots, called microrobots, that can swim around in the lungs, deliver medication and be used to clear up life-threatening cases of bacterial pneumonia. In mice, ...
Aug. 17, 2022 A pioneering genomic surveillance study has provided the clearest picture yet of the arms race between Streptococcus pneumoniae, the bacterium responsible for a range of illnesses such as pneumonia ...
June 13, 2022 Many different types of bacteria and viruses can cause pneumonia, but there is no easy way to determine which microbe is causing a particular patient's illness. This uncertainty makes it harder for ...
Apr. 19, 2022 A new study shows patients hospitalized with COVID-19 pneumonia have a higher risk of developing dementia than those with other types of ...
Nov. 15, 2021 Researchers have discovered a therapy that targets host cells rather than bacterial cells in treating bacterial pneumonia in rodents. The method ...
New Study Shows Environmental and Social Factors Contribute to Higher Rates of Pneumonia in Children
Oct. 30, 2021 A new study demonstrates that children who are exposed to a certain type of environmental air pollution are more likely to contract community ...
Earlier Headlines
Feb. 8, 2023 A new study reveals how resistance to bacteraemic pneumonia is provided by a unique subset of lung T regulatory ...
Mar. 9, 2022 A real-time electronic decision support system helped clinicians at community hospitals provide best practice care for emergency department patients with pneumonia, resulting in decreased intensive ...
Oct. 29, 2021 Researchers report that a recently discovered inflammatory mediator, interleukin-26, appears to have an important role in pneumonia and contribute to the killing of ...
July 15, 2021 Pneumonia is the leading cause of death in children worldwide. A new study identifies an unusual pattern of deadly bacteria with resistance to all standard antibiotic therapy in children with ...
June 24, 2021 Researchers have found a further reason for the severity of dual infection by influenza and Streptococcus pneumonia -- a new virulence mechanism for a surface protein on the pneumonia-causing ...