• 弓形虫对人体的危害性

    11-01-05 About one-third of the human population is infected with a parasite called Toxoplasma gondii(弓形虫) , but most of them don't know it. Though Toxoplasma causes no symptoms in most people, it can be harmful to individuals with suppressed immune sys...

  • 人体37度体温可有效避免真菌感染

    10-12-23 Two researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found that our 98.6 F (37 C) body temperature strikes a perfect balance: warm enough to ward off(避开,挡住) fungal infection(真菌感染) but not so hot that we need...

  • 科学家发现生物膜感染机制

    10-12-07 What: Scientists from the National Institutes of Health have discovered how catheter(导管) -related bacterial infection develops and disseminates to become a potentially life-threatening condition. The study, which included research on Staphylococ...

  • 联合国:艾滋病蔓延速率暂缓

    10-11-24 The number of new HIV infections and deaths from Aids are falling globally, according to new statistics from the UN's programme on HIV/Aids. 联合国艾滋病规划署的最新统计数据显示,全球范围内新感染艾滋病病毒的人数和死于艾滋病的人数正在下降。 The virus...

  • 日常服用艾滋病药物可减少感染风险

    10-11-24 A daily dose of an oral antiretroviral drug(抗逆转录病毒药物) , currently approved to treat HIV infection, reduced the risk of acquiring HIV infection by 43.8 percent among men who have sex with men. The findings, a major advance in HIV prevention...

  • 真菌感染龟卵导致大西洋海龟数量减少

    10-10-31 An international team of Mycologists(霉菌学家) and Ecologists(生态学家) studying Atlantic sea turtles at Cape Verde have discovered that the species is under threat from a fungal infection which targets eggs. The research, published in FEMS Micr...

  • 科学实验可使白鼠具有人类免疫系统

    10-10-06 Therapeutic antibodies can be an efficient alternative when common drugs do not work anymore. However, antibodies obtained from blood of animals such as mice could not be used: The human immune system recognizes them as foreign and rejects them. In...

  • 可抑制口腔微生物的分子被发现

    10-09-26 A University of Oklahoma research team has uncovered a key to arresting the growth of thrush(画眉,鹅口疮) a type of oral yeast(酵母) infection that sickens patients with compromised immune systems, diabetes and newborns as well as healthy indiv...

  • 胰岛素可减轻细菌感染引起的炎症

    10-09-09 Treating intensive care(重病特别护理) patients who develop life-threatening bacterial infections, or septicemia(败血病) , with insulin potentially could reduce their chances of succumbing to(屈服于) the infection, if results of a new prelimina...

  • 治疗感染的新疗法或将问世

    10-09-06 Selfish bacterial cells that act in their own interests and do not cooperate with their infection-causing colleagues can actually reduce the severity of infection. The selfish behaviour of these uncooperative bacteria could be exploited to treat ant...