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Influenza
Viral Enzyme Recruited in Fight Against Ear Infection
April 10th, 2007
Parents might one day give their children a weekly treatment with a nasal spray of virus enzymes to prevent them from getting a severe middle ear infection, based on results of a study done in mice by investigators from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and The Rockefeller University, in New York. Such a treatment would avoid the use of antibiotics, thus eliminating the problem of antibiotic resistance. A report on this study appears in the March issue of the online journal "PLoS Pathogens." Middle ear infection, also called acute otitis media, is an inflammation of the middle ear space. About half of all children carry Streptococcus pneumoniae, the bacteria that...
Source: Virus Weekly (2007-04-10)
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