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16 May 2012 JAMA
Dual prevalence of malaria, STIs exist among pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa
A review of studies reporting estimates of the prevalence of sexually transmitted infections/reproductive...
14 May 2012 University of Leeds/Proteomics
Virus 'barcodes' offer detection of mutated strains
Dr Julian Hiscox and Dr John Barr of the University's Faculty of Biological Sciences are working with the...
11 May 2012 Lancet
Preventable infectious diseases caused almost two-thirds of global child under-5 deaths in 2010
In 2010, preventable infectious diseases were responsible for almost two-thirds of the 7.6 million deaths of...
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Have you ever met?
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.
