Streptococcal streptococcus pneumoniae vaccine

Pneumococcal disease is a leading cause of serious illness in children and adults throughout the world. The disease is caused by a common bacterium, Streptococcus pneumoniae, or pneumococcus, a gram-p...

Checkpoint kinase 1 CHK 1

Progression through the cell cycle is monitored by surveillance mechanisms known as cell cycle checkpoints. Dysfunction in cell cycle checkpoints leads to genomic instability and contributes to tumo...

Toll Like Receptor TLR

Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are a class of proteins that play a key role in the innate immune system. TLRs have become attractive targets for activation or antagonism in pharmaceutical research. TLR ag...

Hedgehog signalling cascades

Despite the humorous name, hedgehog signalling cascades are central to embryonic development and has been implicated in the development of a number of diseases, including cancer. The downstream ca...

Myc is the protein encoded by the MYC gene that activates the cell cycle

Myc is the protein encoded by the MYC gene that activates the cell cycle. It promotes cell replication through genetic coding for p14, inhibiting MDM2 and preventing the degradation of the pro-apopt...

Streptococcus Endophthalmitis: Doctor, Know Thy Pharmacy

A recent outbreak of streptococcus endophthalmitis after bevacizumab injection in South Florida is a reminder to clinicians to make sure they know what they are injecting and where it came from. Med...

Selective grazing and aversion to olive and grape leaves achieved in goats and sheep

(Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) Researchers from the Research Group on Ruminants led by Elena Albanell, lecturer in Animal and Food Science at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, have successfully...

Griffith University's Institute for Glycomics launches human trials for Streptococcus A vaccine

Griffith University's Institute for Glycomics has launched human trials for a vaccine against Streptococcus A, the germ that causes rheumatic fever.

Meridian Bioscience Announces illumigene® Group A Streptococcus and illumigene® Group B Streptococcus Tests

The need to distinguish between group A streptococcus and polymicrobial causes in necrotising fasciitis

Sultan and colleagues do not distinguish between classic group A streptococcus (GAS) necrotising fasciitis and polymicrobial (predominantly Gram negative and anaerobic) causes typified by Fournier’s...

Streptococcus pneumonia Shields Foreign DNA Derived From Other Bacteria To Promote Genetic Diversity And Vaccine Evasion

A new report demonstrates that the human pathogen Streptococcus (S.) pneumoniae (one of the known causes of bacterial pneumonia) possesses an unusual enzyme that protects foreign DNA taken up during t...

Streptococcus pneumoniae meningitis following postoperative endophthalmitis

Streptococcus pneumoniae meningitis following postoperative endophthalmitis Eye advance online publication, September 7 2012. doi:10.1038/eye.2012.186 Authors: K Ali, M Owen, I Kumar...

Human trials for Streptococcus A vaccine

(Griffith University) Griffith University's Institute for Glycomics has launched human trials for a vaccine against Streptococcus A, the germ that causes rheumatic fever.

Cross-sectional study of Streptococcus species in quarter milk samples of dairy cows in the canton of Bern, Switzerland.

A total of 2538 quarter milk samples from 638 lactating dairy cows from 47 farms in the canton of Bern, Switzerland, were investigated for streptococci. A novel, simple and inexpensive laboratory meth...

Leptospirosis as the most frequent infectious disease impairing productivity in small ruminants in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Despite the importance of small ruminants breeding in developing countries, milk/meat productivity remains unsatisfactory. Infectious diseases, such as leptospirosis, brucellosis, and small ruminant l...

Distribution of Streptococcus troglodytae and Streptococcus dentirousetti in chimpanzee oral cavities.

Aim of this study was to analyze the distribution and the phenotypic properties of the indigenous streptococci in the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) oral cavities. Eleven chimpanzees (from 9 to 44, aver...

Complete Genome Sequence of the African Dairy Isolate Streptococcus infantarius subsp. infantarius Strain CJ18.

Streptococcus infantarius subsp. infantarius, a member of the Streptococcus bovis/Streptococcus equinus complex, is highly prevalent in artisanal dairy fermentations in Africa. Here the complete genom...

'Schmallenberg virus' - a novel orthobunyavirus emerging in Europe.

SUMMARY In 2011, a novel orthobunyavirus of the Simbu serogroup, the Schmallenberg virus (SBV), was discovered using a metagenomic approach. SBV caused a large epidemic in Europe in ruminants. As with...