September 30, 2024 by Taylor Barnes, Baylor College of Medicine Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions have discovered a mechanism that drives the long-term decline in immune response that is observed after tuberculosis (TB) has been successfully treated. Their findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggest a...
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Low dose of the medicine intravenous immunoglobulin decreases the effect of dangerous toxins during severe infections
by Emma Karlsso, Karolinska Institutet During necrotizing soft tissue infections ordinary bacteria infect our body, spread rapidly and cause tissue death. Treatment with antibiotics is not sufficient and infected tissue needs to be removed through surgery. 22% of people who suffer from this disease need to amputate a limb and 18% do not survive. A common...