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This is the sixth of 6 guest posts on infection and chronic disease. By Courtney Cook Kidney stone disease affects approximately 5% of Americans. While several risk factors are well-established, including genetic predisposition, metabolic diseases, lifestyle, and diet, there are...
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Posted on April 16, 2008 12:30 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
How strong is the link between adenovirus and obesity?
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Posted on April 16, 2008 8:00 AM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This is the third of 6 guest posts on infection and chronic disease. Does chronic IL-6 levels lead to epigenetic changes in DNA methylation that contribute to this pathway? By Matthew Fitzgerald How can infection be a carcinogen? How do...
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Posted on April 15, 2008 9:30 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Student post #2: what are some of the issues and controversies in autism epidemiology?
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Posted on April 14, 2008 3:40 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Will bacteriophage treatment for "superbugs" save lives, or create even worse pathogens?
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Posted on April 14, 2008 12:15 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Early this week, grant application; yesterday and today, IRB and IACUC for another project. But once again, fellow Sbers are keeping me busy reading about stories I'd like to be writing on; see yet again Mike on E. coli O157:H7--everything...
Posted on April 3, 2008 3:35 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
1980 marked a milestone in infectious disease epidemiology: the World Health Organization declared the smallpox virus eradicated in the wild. However, while smallpox currently exists only in frozen stocks, poxviruses as a class certainly haven't disappeared. A related virus, monkeypox,...
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Posted on March 25, 2008 3:35 PM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In this NY Times article on parents who are opting out of vaccinations, one mom notes her objections: "I refuse to sacrifice my children for the greater good," said Sybil Carlson, whose 6-year-old son goes to school with several of...
Posted on March 24, 2008 6:40 PM • 207 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Hepatitis viruses are making news around the world; find a roundup of the various types (and their basic epidemiology) here.
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Posted on March 7, 2008 10:10 AM • 47 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Bacteria...is there anything they *can't* do?
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Posted on February 29, 2008 5:00 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
HPV has been linked to more than cervical cancer; oral cancers can result from infection.
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Posted on February 27, 2008 3:45 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Infectious obesity: what's hype, and what's supported by the evidence?
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Posted on February 26, 2008 9:00 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Can a parasite cause mental illness?
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Posted on February 25, 2008 3:40 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Viruses are increasingly being linked to cancers; could a vaccine against one type of virus protect against multiple cancers?
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Posted on February 25, 2008 9:00 AM • 27 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The science of Seinfeld: does double-dipping a chip really contaminate the chip dip?
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Posted on January 31, 2008 8:30 AM • 24 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Though there still may be some lingering doubt about the cause of the Black Death and subsequent outbreaks of plague, the pathogen behind the outbreaks that have taken place in the last 150 years or so is much less ambiguous. What is the current state of plague epidemiology, and what does the future hold?
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Posted on January 23, 2008 10:24 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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