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Intravacc gets NIAID contract for intranasal gonorrhoea vaccine development

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from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) unit National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to develop a prophylactic intranasal vaccine against Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG). Leveraging its outer membrane vesicles (OMV) platform technology, Intravacc will develop the vaccine.

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Solving a mystery: How the TB bacterium develops rapid resistance to antibiotics

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Credit: SDSU For a slow-growing microbe that multiplies infrequently, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the pathogen that causes tuberculosis (TB) has long puzzled researchers as to how it develops resistance to antibiotics so quickly, in a matter of weeks to months.

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Researchers develop a new technique to treat middle ear infections

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In a new study, researchers have designed a miniaturized 3D-printed device to inactivate Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a common bacterium that causes the infection. Credit: Jungeun Won Middle ear infections, also known as otitis media, affect more than 80% of the children in the U.S.

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Researcher receives grant to develop improved Lyme disease diagnostics and therapeutics

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Lyme disease is carried by black-legged ticks and infects people when they are bitten and transmit the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi. Black-legged ticks are especially common in the northeastern United States, and people are exposed to the ticks usually during outdoor activities.

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Sanofi snaps up acne vaccine developer Origimm Bio

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The French group said that ORI-001, a vaccine based on recombinant proteins from the Cutibacterium acnes (formerly Propionibacterium acnes ) bacterium that is often found in acne lesions, could be the first ever vaccine for the condition. The post Sanofi snaps up acne vaccine developer Origimm Bio appeared first on.

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Small RNA as a central player in infections

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Credit: (Image: Chair of Molecular Infection Biology II / University of Wuerzburg / SCIGRAPHIX) More than half of the world’s population carries the bacterium Helicobacter pylori in their stomach mucosa.

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MIT Scientists Develop Food Sensor That Can Detect Spoiled or Contaminated Food

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The strip did indeed work, showing a positive for the bacterium in about 16 hours and indicating spoilage a few hours after that. To test out this microneedle strip, the researchers injected a piece of raw fish with E. coli , salmonella and a non-contaminated control fluid. They also waited for it to, essentially, rot.