Category: Research
... interesting aspect of this research group is to assess the effect of viral infections on maternal asthma and in turn, pregnancy and infant outcomes. They have found that maternal viral infections during pregnancy increase the risk of wheezing illness ...
Category: News & Articles
... one of the worst outcomes for any kind of respiratory condition or infection. Characterised as an acute infection of the lung, with fluid or pus-filled alveoli causing an ... A number of mechanisms cause pneumonia, however, bacterial or viral infection are the most common. Bacterial-induced pneumonia is ...
Category: Research
... diseases are marked by breathlessness, cough and recurrent infection. COPD is a leading cause of disease burden in Australia and ... to run against each other. This can be caused by bacterial or viral infections, pulmonary embolus or cancer. Treatments can include ...
Category: News & Articles
... evidence that the vitamin boosts the immune system and helps ward off viral infections like the common cold, which are a common trigger for ...
Category: News & Articles
... research to understand why pregnant women are vulnerable to certain viral infections and identify strategies to reduce maternal infection at the time of viral epidemics. $431,000 Career Development Fellowship for Dr Flora ...
Category: News & Articles
... ACE2 on cells in the mouth, nose and airways. For the first week of infection, symptoms are relatively mild, with sore throat, cough and ... the disease’s typical progression. From days four to nine after infection, the symptoms worsen, with increasing breathlessness and ... of COVID-19. But we can look at the after-effects of other acute viral respiratory diseases such as influenza, SARS and Middle East ...
Category: Researcher Profiles
... $1.6 million. She also holds an honorary position at the Institute of Infection & Global Health, University of Liverpool, UK. Dr Patabendige ... at Liverpool was focused on developing a human BBB model to study viral encephalitis (inflammation and swelling of the brain). Here she ... life-threatening disease) to investigate the mechanisms of viral entry across the human BBB, and the resulting inflammatory ...
Category: Researcher Profiles
... the impacts of early-life immune stress (think bacterial or viral infection) on immunological and endocrinological development, and how ...
Category: News & Articles
... of slime but also a serious intent, which is to educate people about viral and bacterial infections, including how to treat them,” ...
Category: General
Pregnant women are much more susceptible to viral infections. Half of all the deaths of women during the swine flu ...