The study aims to understand how capsular polysaccharides (CPS) contribute to neuropathology and virulence. The findings suggest that the olfactory route may lead to meningitis before bacteremia ...

Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China ...

Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, Bordeaux INP, CBMN, UMR 5248, IECB, F-33607 Pessac, France ...

Vaccines using the immune response to the capsular polysaccharide provide effective, serogroup-specific protection against invasive disease. Vaccines based on the plain polysaccharide of the ...

Collaborative Innovation Center for Modern Grain Circulation and Safety, Jiangsu Province Engineering Research Center of Edible Fungus Preservation and Intensive Processing, College of Food Science ...

Vaccination against meningococcus, a bacterium with five chemically different capsular polysaccharides known as serogroup A, B, C, Y and W135, also follows a similar paradigm. When the first ...

The polysaccharide vaccine consists of purified capsular polysaccharides from the 23 serotypes causing about 90% of invasive pneumococcal infection in industrialized countries. Responses are age ...

Typhoid conjugate vaccines can be given to children over 6 months of age and Vi capsular polysaccharide vaccines can be given to children over 2 years of age. In India, TCVs are currently only ...

Aug. 6, 2024 — An AI-based analysis of over 2 million hospital visits has found that most of the time, a pneumonia diagnosis made in the hospital will change from a patient's entrance to their ...

Researchers use a unique barcoding system to track K. pneumoniae bacteria as it moved throughout the body. Bacteremia, or blood poisoning, occurs when bacteria overcome the body's immune defenses ...