Month: April 2012

(www.neomundo.com.ar*)-_Es_uno_de_los_grandes_temores_de_los_padres_de_niños_pequeños,_y_no_sin_razón.) The hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) is a serious disease caused by a bacteria that may be present in undercooked meat or poorly washed vegetables. Those most affected are children under five, in whom the disease can leave severe sequelae at kidney level, or even result in death. As there are no specific treatments – once diagnosed with Hus, only subtracting treat symptoms and wait that well – evolve, expectations are now placed in medical science and, rather, in the possibilities of developing a preventive way. At this point it becomes important the Institute of Experimental Medicine (IMEX), more specifically a team of experts led by Marina Palermo, biochemistry researcher at the CONICET, dedicated to study the immune response in search of some indication to show them, in advance, to what people will be likely to high contract Hus. Without prior notice All starts with the ingestion of food contaminated with the bacterium e. Coli, producer of a toxin called Shiga. Although generally causes gastroenteritis not passing for the elderly as a percentage of the infected children released toxin transcends the intestine and travels through the blood to the kidney or the central nervous system. It is there when infection leads to SUH, a very severe disease that produces acute renal failure, anemia and decrease in platelets. Once diagnosed, patients were placed to counter the symptoms through transfusion and...