Division of Infectious Diseases Archive — Page 8 of 13
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December 16, 2019
Applications sought for Transplant Infectious Diseases/Immunocompromised Host Fellowship Program
The Division of Infectious Diseases is seeking applicants for its new Transplant Infectious Diseases/Immunocompromised Host (TID/ICH) Fellowship Program. -
November 14, 2019
RSV transmission in the Middle East
Understanding how RSV is transmitted, which strains dominate and how new strains emerge around the globe will guide better vaccine and anti-viral drug design. -
October 17, 2019
Effort to remove penicillin allergy labels seeing success
A program in the Medical Intensive Care Unit has successfully removed penicillin allergy labels from more than 45 inpatients at high risk to receive antibiotics, but whose penicillin allergies were low risk. -
October 9, 2019
Vaccine study seeks to halt flu’s most severe side effects
Vanderbilt University Medical Center is leading a multicenter national study to evaluate the effectiveness of the influenza vaccine for preventing the flu’s most serious side effects — admission to an intensive care unit (ICU), organ failure and death. -
September 24, 2019
Treating C. diff: new purpose for an old drug?
An inexpensive generic drug once used to prevent gastrointestinal ulcers in people taking daily NSAIDs protects against C. diff infection in mice. -
July 18, 2019
Effort seeks to improve safety of drugs given during pregnancy
A 19-year-old student is leading a multi-institutional collaboration to identify drugs that can be prescribed safely to pregnant women without harming the fetus. -
July 11, 2019
Vanderbilt team shows how stomach bug can trigger cancer
Researchers at Vanderbilt University and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor have obtained the first high-resolution image of a molecular “machine” used by the insidious stomach bug Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) to inject a cancer-causing protein into the stomach lining.