Tagged: OVA

A gift for someone special - Infectious Thoughts

Siouxsie Wiles • Dec 31, 2014 •

• assisted reproduction,
• donor,
• egg donation,
• ethics,
• fertility,
• In vitro fertilisation,
• IVF,
• OVA

Regular readers may have noticed I’ve been a little quiet for the last month. I’ve been feeling ‘under the weather’, to use a common euphemism. In reality I’ve been through a really interesting experience that isn’t often spoken about in public. That must make it the perfect material for a blog, right? Right! Warning: I will mention the word vagina … Read More

Antibiotics and asthma - Infectious Thoughts

Siouxsie Wiles • Mar 19, 2012 •

• antibiotics,
• asthma,
• Brett Finlay,
• OVA

Administering antibiotics in infancy leads to enhanced susceptibility to asthma At least in mice. Brett Finlay and colleagues, at the University of British Columbia, report in the journal EMBO Reports that treating baby mice with the antibiotic vancomycin not only changed the types of bacteria found in the gut, but was also associated with an increased susceptibility to … Read More