Archives for April 2011

Wedding fever

April 29, 2011 by micrognome 1 Comment

A cautionary tale of how a wedding breakfast can turn sour when it leaves the guests with an unwanted infectious souvenir; wedding fever.

Filed Under: μGnews, μGnomics Tagged With: campylobacter, cyclospora, E coli, food borne infection, norovirus, salmonella, trichinella, wedding fever

Enterovirus encounters

April 26, 2011 by micrognome Leave a Comment

Enterovirus 71 has become the dominant neurovirulent virus. Other enterovirus encounters include hand, foot & mouth disease.

Filed Under: Featured, μGnotes Tagged With: common cold, coxsackievirus, encephalitis, enterovirus, hand foot & mouth disease, meningitis, polio, rhinovirus, RNA, RNA virus

arbovirus onslaught

April 22, 2011 by micrognome 3 Comments

Murray Virus Encephalitis virus has been a late starter during the 2011 wet season. There have been some serious infections in this arbovirus onslaught.

Filed Under: FACTM, Featured, μGnews Tagged With: arbovirus, arbovirus onslaught, arboviruses, Kunjin, Murray Valley encephalitis, northwestern Australia, viral encephalitis, wet season diseases

flu vaccine revisited

April 22, 2011 by micrognome 1 Comment

flu vaccine campaign one year after febrile convulsions in WA children caused suspension of 2010 vaccine programme

Filed Under: Featured, μGnews Tagged With: anti-vaccine, febrile convulsion, flu, flu vaccine revisited, H1N1, influenza, intradermal, vaccine

Emerging Gram negative infections

April 17, 2011 by micrognome Leave a Comment

recent news on emerging Gram negative infections

Filed Under: μGnews, μGnomics Tagged With: AmpC, betalactamases, cellular virulence, emerging Gram negative infections, Enterobacteriaceae, GNB, Gram negative bacilli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa

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