Message to Coos Bay: Get along or lose businesses (2185) Oct 16, 2009
Pig Nuts wrote on Oct 14, 2009 8:28 PM:o Toxoplasma gondii causing toxoplasmosis in 35% o Trypanosoma lewisii in 29% o Eimeria separata in 8% * Rickettsia o Coxiella burnetti evidence of infection by Q fever in 34% * Viruses o Hantavirus causing Hantaan-fever or hemorrhagic fever in 5% * Ectoparasites (note: these ectoparasites are vectors for diseases which are transmissible to humans, such as typhus) o Fleas found on 100% of the rats o Mites found on 67% o Lice found on 38. Pig Nuts wrote on... (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
How To Improve Vaccines To Trigger T Cell As Well As Antibody Response Sep 19, 2009
Intracellular pathogens exhibit a wide variety of behaviors that the immune system has learned to recognize, such as lurking in the endosome (salmonella), the endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi bodies (Legionella), the lysozyme (Q fever) and the cytosol (Listeria). Effective vaccines must mimic this behavior in order to stimulate a complete immune response. (Science Daily)
Vitamin C Deficiency Impairs Early Brain Development, Guinea Pig Study Finds Sep 5, 2009
4, 2009) New research at LIFE Faculty of Life Sciences at University of Copenhagen shows that vitamin C deficiency may impair the mental development of new-born babies. In the latest issue of the well-known scientific journal The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, a group of researchers headed by professor Jens Lykkesfeldt shows that guinea pigs subjected to moderate vitamin C deficiency have 30 per cent less hippocampal neurones and markedly worse spatial memory than guinea pigs given a... (Science Daily)
The Word: The ambiguity of ‘needs to be’ Jul 19, 2009
My vote is for P-town, since a cap plus hyphen (or space) is the usual way to represent a word with a letter pronounced as a letter: the A train, F-stop, G-string, I-beam, Q fever, U-boat. There are at least five locations, and innumerable businesses, using the various styles of P town, so we can t say any one way is wrong. (Boston Globe)
Bioinformatics Sheds Light On Evolutionary Origin Of Rickettsia Virulence Genes Mar 20, 2009
Once introduced, these virulence factors compromise the host and may result in harmful disease, for example Legionnaires' disease (Legionella pneumophila) and Q fever (Coxiella burnetii). However, these secretion systems have not been implicated in human diseases caused by Rickettsia, including epidemic typhus (R. prowazekii) and Rocky Mountain spotted fever (R. rickettsii). (Science Daily)
Sickened by Q Fever, former livestock workers seek answers Mar 17, 2009
REGIONAL -- A group of Shelby County-area workers employed at the now-closed Prairie Rose Lamb facility was featured on Channel 7 KETV this week, saying they believe they were sickened with Q Fever while working at the livestock plant last year ... Six individuals sat down with a reporter from Channel 7 this week, outlining their symptoms as well as their concerns about little safeguards to prevent the contraction of Q Fever while working at the plant, as well as mounting medical costs ... A... (Harlan Tribune, IA)
Comparative Genomics Reveals Molecular Evolution Of Q Fever Pathogen Feb 12, 2009
The researchers compared the sequences of four different strains of C. burnetii, an intracellular bacterium that can cause acute and chronic Q fever in humans, to build up a comprehensive picture of the genetic architecture and content of the different genomes ... Q fever is considered one of the most infectious diseases in the world since inhalation of a single bacterium alone is sufficient to kick-start infection ... The chronic form of Q fever in humans is rare but can lead to heart... (Science Daily)
