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30 July 2010 PloS Pathogens
Viral 'fossils' found in vertebrate genomes
Over millions of years, retroviruses, which insert their genetic material into the host genome as part of...
29 July 2010 PloS Medicine
Unusual cases of listeriosis in the developing world
Rogier van Doorn and colleagues from Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam present a Learning Forum article in this...
27 July 2010 Max Planck Society/Science
Legionella infection: hijacked supplies for pathogens
When it infects the lungs, the Legionnaire’s bacterium Legionella pneumophila causes acute pneumonia. The...
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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.
