New UBC research on bacteria that cause major problems for those with cystic fibrosis reveals clues as to how it proliferates for so long in the lungs and offers new ideas for treatments to explore. “Someone with cystic fibrosis has about one less teaspoon of water in the mucous in …
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Researchers Discover Potentially Pathogenic Bacterium in Children with Acute Leukemia
BOSTON, June 20, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Researchers at the Human Microbiology Institute (HMI) have discovered a novel bacteria in the saliva of children with acute leukemia that they say could be linked to deadly, drug-resistant pneumonia in patients with blood cancer. In an abstract presented over the weekend at ASM …