#Blood Infection

[headakefish7]

Problems. Most of the night gofer tryed to comprehend a thing. Finally they did. A lofer at a hospital got off ls and went to check up doing lots of female stuff. Looks like Samson will have to be patient

Would rather have ability to drive some thing. But it takes more than saying. It takes credit and or job.

Ringo star let's call them saw a junkie below the bridge at hollister and 290 just sit there on pile of what ever. They got a sign says no camp, garbage. Soon they be in crowbar town

Believe me this is not easy to do on Here. But some one has been coped up in a room before. Don't madder who visits. There still longing for that special some one . May be the Lord knows

[nananananaratking]

How did I go from losing 68 pounds to gaining 15 and extremely ill this isn't fair I'm not even skinny I don't even think I care I just want to be better but everyday wake up to relapse and remember that I need to keep my kidneys and then puking at random moments of the day

[munaeem]

What are the different levels of severity of hemophilia?

Hemophilia is generally classified into three major types based on the level of clotting factor deficiency: Hemophilia A, Hemophilia B, and Hemophilia C. These types are further categorized into different levels of severity based on the amount of clotting factor present in the blood. The severity of hemophilia is determined by the activity level of the clotting factor: Mild Hemophilia:…

[0xycod0ne]

neil josten,, my muse,, my favourite blood soaked pathetic cat

[ozymandian-hymn]

mercy, mèrci

[octo-blobs]

the virgin / the hero / the father / the damned

[ambassadortotrilliusprime]

I know like, you need your kidneys.

But right now.

With the pain they are emitting?

Or I'm going to rip you out and function without you somehow.

[reasonsforhope]

"When bloodstream infections set in, fast treatment is crucial — but it can take several days to identify the bacteria responsible. A new, rapid-diagnosis sepsis test could cut down on the wait, reducing testing time from as much as a few days to about 13 hours by cutting out a lengthy blood culturing step, researchers report July 24 [2024] in Nature.

“They are pushing the limits of rapid diagnostics for bloodstream infections,” says Pak Kin Wong, a biomedical engineer at Penn State who was not involved in the research. “They are driving toward a direction that will dramatically improve the clinical management of bloodstream infections and sepsis.”

Sepsis — an immune system overreaction to an infection — is a life-threatening condition that strikes nearly 2 million people per year in the United States, killing more than 250,000 (SN: 5/18/08). The condition can also progress to septic shock, a steep drop in blood pressure that damages the kidneys, lungs, liver and other organs. It can be caused by a broad range of different bacteria, making species identification key for personalized treatment of each patient.

In conventional sepsis testing, the blood collected from the patient must first go through a daylong blood culturing step to grow more bacteria for detection. The sample then goes through a second culture for purification before undergoing testing to find the best treatment. During the two to three days required for testing, patients are placed on broad-spectrum antibiotics — a blunt tool designed to stave off a mystery infection that’s better treated by targeted antibiotics after figuring out the specific bacteria causing the infection.

Nanoengineer Tae Hyun Kim and colleagues found a way around the initial 24-hour blood culture.

The workaround starts by injecting a blood sample with nanoparticles decorated with a peptide designed to bind to a wide range of blood-borne pathogens. Magnets then pull out the nanoparticles, and the bound pathogens come with them. Those bacteria are sent directly to the pure culture. Thanks to this binding and sorting process, the bacteria can grow faster without extraneous components in the sample, like blood cells and the previously given broad-spectrum antibiotics, says Kim, of Seoul National University in South Korea.

Cutting out the initial blood culturing step also relies on a new imaging algorithm, Kim says. To test bacteria’s susceptibility to antibiotics, both are placed in the same environment, and scientists observe if and how the antibiotics stunt the bacteria’s growth or kill them. The team’s image detection algorithm can detect subtler changes than the human eye can. So it can identify the species and antibiotic susceptibility with far fewer bacteria cells than the conventional method, thereby reducing the need for long culture times to produce larger colonies.

Though the new method shows promise, Wong says, any new test carries a risk of false negatives, missing bacteria that are actually present in the bloodstream. That in turn can lead to not treating an active infection, and “undertreatment of bloodstream infection can be fatal,” he says. “While the classical blood culture technique is extremely slow, it is very effective in avoiding false negatives.”

Following their laboratory-based experiments, Kim and colleagues tested their new method clinically, running it in parallel with conventional sepsis testing on 190 hospital patients with suspected infections. The testing obtained a 100 percent match on correct bacterial species identification, the team reports. Though more clinical tests are needed, these accuracy results are encouraging so far, Kim says.

The team is continuing to refine their design in hopes of developing a fully automated sepsis blood test that can quickly produce results, even when hospital laboratories are closed overnight. “We really wanted to commercialize this and really make it happen so that we could make impacts to the patients,” Kim says."

-via Science News, July 24, 2024

[donothello]

[vellichorom]

you sick little animal, even death itself pities you.

[headakefish7]

Well some one is doing the,checkups probably right now. That means no cell phone. Thats what said.. I don't like reporting on this stuff. But since got nothing else,to consider. First hero thought they was loose from hospital and do the,wild west with some one else . But no. Sure don't won't this on fb headlines. Hero ant say about the checkups.

[my-quirk-is-fred]

TW: BLOOD, PARASITES, INFECTION

[munaeem]

How does hemophilia develop?

Hemophilia A or B: Hemophilia is a group of genetic disorders that prevent blood from clotting normally. There are two main types: Hemophilia A and Hemophilia B. Hemophilia A is the most common form, caused by a deficiency or absence of clotting factor VIII. Hemophilia B, also known as Christmas disease, is caused by a deficiency or absence of clotting factor IX. Causes of Hemophilia: Hemophilia…

[hqbits]

she’s just like me fr

[hellsitegenetics]

hi iam so hugnry i hope i get something edible like perhaps an apple or chicken . maybe i will get poisoned by a mushroom. sad...

String identified: a g gt tg a a a cc . a gt a . a…

Closest match: Klebsiella aerogenes strain GY22PK002 chromosome, complete genome

(image source) Note: This image is an artistic representation of the Klebsiella genus.

[firbolgfriend]

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