Tag: infection

ScienceDaily (July 6, 2010) Researchers are using nanotechnology to develop a medical dressing which will detect and treat infection in wounds.

Scientists at the University of Bath and the burns team at the Southwest UK Paediatric Burns Centre at Frenchay Hospital in Bristol are working together with teams across Europe and Australia to create an advanced wound dressing.

ScienceDaily (Jan. 11, 2010) Bacteria can swim, propelling themselves through fluids using a whip-like extension called a flaggella.
They can also walk, strolling along solid surfaces using little fibrous legs called pili.
It is this motility that enable some pathogenic bacteria to establish the infections -- such as meningitis -- that cause their human hosts to get sick or even die.

Storing donated blood too long increases the chance of an infection, US researchers clai