Bacterial meningitis is a severe infection characterised by the inflammation of the membranes that envelop the brain and spinal cord. It results in high rates of morbidity and mortality worldwide, ...
A Brazilian study published in the journal PNAS describes some of the effects infection by SARS-CoV-2 can have on the central nervous system. A preliminary version (not yet peer-reviewed) posted in ...
Researchers have built a 3D human blood-brain barrier in the lab and discovered a key role of brain pericytes in cerebral malaria disease Cerebral malaria kills 1 out of 5 children that suffer from it ...
image: Section of a cerebral vessel in an infected animal model containing infected monocytes adhering to endothelial cells. Listeria is marked in red, actin in white (including the actin tails ...
DENVER, Colorado — A test to detect pathogens related to meningitis, encephalitis, and other neurologic infections is more sensitive than are conventional diagnostics and could vastly improve ...
In a recent study published in the journal Annals of Diagnostic Pathology, researchers in the United States evaluated the impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on central nervous system (CNS) ...
French researchers have found out more about how the foodborne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes gets into the brain. Listeria monocytogenes is responsible for listeriosis, a severe foodborne illness ...
CNS infections caused by carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) pose a critical global healthcare challenge. These infections are exceptionally difficult to treat due to two major barriers: the ...
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Immune cells pull a trick to stop this brain parasite in its tracks
Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have identified a specific enzyme inside immune cells that keeps Toxoplasma gondii, one of the most common brain parasites on the planet, ...
Some 'hypervirulent' strains of Listeria monocytogenes have a greater capacity to infect the central nervous system. Scientists have discovered a mechanism that enables cells infected with Listeria ...
If you watched Kim Kardashian's latest health update and felt a jolt at the phrase "holes on the brain," you were not alone. It is a term that sounds catastrophic. Yet on the type of scan she had, a ...
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