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22 May 2012 Emory University/PNAS
Pandemic 2009 H1N1 vaccination produces antibodies against multiple flu strains
The pandemic 2009 H1N1 vaccine can generate antibodies in vaccinated individuals not only against the H1N1...
21 May 2012 UC San Diego/ Nature Medicine
Drug found for parasite that is major cause of death
Research by a collaborative group of scientists from UC San Diego School of Medicine, UC San Francisco and...
18 May 2012 University of Florida/J of Clin Microbiology
Tiny tool can play big role against tuberculosis
A tiny filter could have a big impact around the world in the fight against tuberculosis. Using the...
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Prof. Thomas Mettenleiter is the President of the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, the German Federal Research Institute for Animal Health. The identification of the Schmallenberg virus, the causing agent of an epidemic among cattle in Germany, is one of its latest successes. The institute not only focusses on outbreaks of epidemics among livestock, but increasingly studies outbreaks in wild animal populations.
Read more in this month's interview.
04 October 2011 Martina Bünnige
From Aspergillus to Zygomycetes: Invasion of the Fungi
It sounds like a scene out of a horror movie: Tiny spores of rot-eating fungi, finely dispersed in the air, are inhaled and reach the pulmonary alveoli. There, they mature into fungus mycelium, decompose the lungs and keep growing in the bloodstream, to beset other vital inner organs and destroy them. Yet, systemic fungal infections are a real risk in many medical fields. The course of the disease is serious and any delay in its treatment increases the mortality. Which is already high: Depending on the fungus, the health status of the patient and the concomitant treatment, it lies between 30 and 90 percent.
