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World Pneumonia Day 2024: New Treatments and Innovations

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Pneumonia is a lung infection that can be caused by viruses, bacteria or fungi and can result in millions of hospitalizations and deaths annually. These antibiotics target bacteria through mechanisms distinct from traditional antibiotics, thus helping to reduce the impact of resistant strains.

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Valneva’s Lyme disease vaccine faces final clinical test in a sparse landscape

Pharmaceutical Technology

Lyme disease is also known as borreliosis, which refers to the borrelia bacteria that cause the condition. A vaccine called Lymerix , then manufactured by SmithKline Beecham, was approved in the US in 1998 but was quickly withdrawn in 2002 due to insufficient custo mer demand. It is currently treated with antibiotics.

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Cronobacter Sakazakii: The Bacteria Behind the Baby Formula Shortage

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Cronobacter sakazakii , the bacteria linked to recent baby formula shortages and the Abbott infant formula recall, could soon join the federal disease watchlist. Also known as Enterobacter sakazakii , Cronobacter sakazakii is a bacteria that can cause severe infections, particularly in infants, and is associated with high mortality rates.

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Common bacteria modified to make designer sugar-based drug

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Process paves a road to safe, ethical, and fast drug manufacturing Credit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute TROY, N.Y. — Envisioning an animal-free drug supply, scientists have — for the first time — reprogrammed a common bacterium to make a designer polysaccharide molecule used in pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals.

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Vitamin boosts essential synthetic chemistry

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Rice lab discovers light-driven catalyst forms olefins for drug, agrochemical manufacturing Credit: Rice University HOUSTON – (Dec. Like the bacteria, the researchers use […].

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Intravacc gets NIAID contract for intranasal gonorrhoea vaccine development

Pharmaceutical Technology

The company will create a comprehensive manufacturing process for NGoXIM to generate batches of the vaccine that are Good Manufacturing Practices-compliant. Therapyx will develop and manufacture the IL-12-containing microspheres in the vaccine called GneX12.

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Bacteriophages: the viruses that can actually be good for you

Pharmaceutical Technology

Bacteria naturally develop resistance to antibiotics over time, through genetic mutation, horizontal gene transfer between bacteria, or because of selective pressure. Virus versus bacteria. Phages are viruses of bacteria. Secondly, the relationships between phages and bacteria are very specific.

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