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Routine childhood immunizations reduce illness and death related to a variety of diseases. © CDC/ J. Schmidt
08 September 2010 JAMA
Pneumococcal vaccine increases risk of getting multiresistant strain
Infants who received heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccination (PCV-7) at 2, 4, and 11 months were more...
06 September 2010 Society for General Microbiology
Backstabbing bacteria: A new treatment for infection?
Selfish bacterial cells that act in their own interests and do not cooperate with their infection-causing...
03 September 2010 National Science Foundation/Nature
Bacterial charity work thwarts medical treatments
A new study reveals that a surprisingly small percentage of bacteria actually become highly resistant "super...
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Thomas Rudel, Chair of Microbiology at the University of Würzburg
The influence of bacterial infection on human behaviour is a topic Thomas Rudel, Chair of Microbiology at the University of Würzburg (Germany), would like to work on in the future. While this is still a dream, Rudel`s scientific career already produced a whole clutch of fascinating results – such as the discovery of the co-evolution of bacterial pathogenicity factors and the host apoptosis machinery.
Read more in our Interview (from 2009) or meet more experts of Infection Research.
21 June 2010 | Anna Holzscheiter
Infectious disease governance – a globalised yet divided world
The swine flu pandemic once again highlighted the wide gap that exists between developing and developed countries in terms of their ability to provide the drugs, health services, logistics and wider medical infrastructure necessary for the rapid protection of citizens from communicable diseases. While industrialised countries were able to develop and acquire large quantities of vaccinations, particularly for most at risk populations, the health systems and health budgets of many developing countries would not be able to shoulder the burden of disease of such a pandemic, facing large numbers of deaths.
