We report a case of bacterial pericarditis in an immunologically competent adult female caused by nonencapsulated Haemophilus influenzae (H influenzae) that was complicated by the acute development of ...

In the United States, the Hib vaccine is recommended for all children younger than 5 years old. It offers the best protection against Hib, which is short for a bacteria called Haemophilus influenzae ...

Researchers at the University of Queensland (UQ) have identified how a common bacterium is able to manipulate the human immune system during respiratory infections and cause persistent illness. The ...

(WXYZ) — In today’s Health Alert, the Detroit Public Schools Community District confirmed there were cases of Haemophilus influenzae in students at Marcus Garvey ...

Petri dish with a brown agar base, featuring clusters of small, round, pink bacterial colonies of H. Influenza. Blue handwritten text on the lid. A vaccine that tackles the bacteria that cause up to ...

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Life-threatening flare-ups of emphysema and chronic bronchitis are often triggered by infections from newly encountered strains of common germs, a study found. Such flare-ups are blamed for many ...

The implications of this case are 3-fold: first, we present here, to the best of our knowledge, the first case of spontaneous bacterial pericarditis caused by nonencapsulated H influenzae occurring in ...