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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Intracerebral hemorrhage ICH is a major public health problem with highest mortality rate of all stroke subtypes and long term disability Since there are no available FDA approved therapies for ICH it is of enormous importance to establish effective treatment for this medical condition Following ICH the deposited blood is damaging initially via compression ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant This is a collaborative proposal to develop inhibitors with reduced susceptibility to resistance and improved genotype spectrum of activity against the NS A protease of the Hepatitis C virus HCV Over three percent of the worldandapos s population is infected with the hepatitis C virus HCV Unfortunately the current best treatment is still quite challeng ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Leptospirosis a zoonotic disease is an important public health problem worldwide It is caused by spirochete bacteria belonging to nine species and more than serovars of the genus Leptospira In the US there is increasing awareness of the importance of leptospirosis as the cause of disease among inner city populations military personnel and individuals ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant This proposal seeks to develop a novel vaccine against Lyme disease by targeting Ixodes scapularis proteins critical for Borrelia burgdorferi transmission from the tick to mammalian host Earlier work has identified four tick proteins Salp TRE tHRF and TSLPI that facilitate different steps of spirochete transmission and immunity against these protein ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Widespread antibiotic use has accelerated S aureus resistance to almost all marketed antibiotic classes including beta lactams fluoroquinolones macrolides aminoglycosides tetracyclines as well as the newer linezolid and daptomycin Methicillin resistant S aureus MRSA is an increasing public health threat with deaths from MRSA infections already compar ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant One of the challenges of research in infectious diseases is to find ways to use the increasing knowledge of the mechanisms underlying disease transformation and progression to develop novel therapeutic strategies for diseases such as increasing menace of bacterial infections Targeting specific RNA such as rRNA which are involved in proliferation and survival ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant In the U S there are more than hospitalizations annually related to burn injury with more than of these admissions to the U S burn centers resulting in more than $ billion in healthcare costs Burn wounds may become infected through patient self infection from their own normal flora or by nosocomial infection between healthcare provider or fa ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Influenza viruses constantly undergo antigenic changes which pose great challenges for development of vaccines against influenza epidemics as well as pandemics There are at least known subtypes of influenza A viruses which fall into two broad phylogenetic groups Current trivalent inactivated vaccines TIV H H and B for seasonal influenza are not suit ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Sickle cell disease SCD is the most common hemoglobinopathy associated with significant life long morbidity and premature mortality Over children are born with SCD in sub Saharan Africa annually more than of them die in early childhood Most of these deaths could be prevented through simple and inexpensive prophylaxis if SCD was diagnosed soon ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Integrated screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) make a simple and effective strategy to address alcohol misuse and its consequences, improving public health. The long-term objective of this project is to reduce alcohol misuse among the workforce, by making SBIRT more available in the workplace, where it has been underutilized. The pr ...