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Food processors beware: Salmonella biofilms incredibly resistant to powerful disinfectants

(EurekAlert) Once Salmonella bacteria get into a food processing facility and have an opportunity to form a biofilm on surfaces, it is likely to be extraordinarily difficult, if not impossible, to kill it, according to research published ahead of print in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology. Researchers from National University of Ireland, Galway conducted Read More »

January 16, 2014
| Filed under Agriculture, Biosafety, Public Health, and Research
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Research finds finds potential treatment for drug-resistant H7N9 influenza virus

(EurekAlert) The novel avian H7N9 influenza virus has caused more than 130 human infections with 43 deaths in China. New research, conducted under the supervision of Kansas State University’s Juergen Richt, is showing promise in helping to fight this deadly virus. “Emergence of a novel drug-resistant H7N9 influenza virus: Evidence-based clinical potential of a natural Read More »

January 16, 2014
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, North America, International, Public Health, and Research
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H5N1 strain from Alberta nurse resembles Chinese strain

(CBCNews) Canadian scientists studying H5N1 bird flu virus samples taken from an Alberta woman who died with the infection say that so far it seems to resemble a Chinese strain. Researchers at Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory and Alberta’s provincial laboratory isolated samples of the virus and are working on sequencing it.

January 16, 2014
| Filed under Asia/Pacific, North America, International, Public Health, and Research
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Soligenix Announces Positive One-Year High-Temperature Stability Results with ThermoVax™ Vaccine Heat Stabilization… — PRINCETON, N.J., Jan. 15, 2014 /PRNewswire/ —

January 16, 2014
| Filed under Countermeasures and Research
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Key difference discovered between our bodies’ fight against viruses and bacteria

(Medical News Today) Scientists at The University of Nottingham have discovered a key difference in the biological mechanisms by which the immune system responds to viral and bacterial pathogens. The study, published in the journal Nature Immunology and led by Professor Uwe Vinkemeier in the University’s School of Life Sciences, centred on STAT1, a protein Read More »