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03 February 2012 Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation/The Lancet
Malaria kills more people than previously thought
Malaria is killing more people worldwide than previously thought, but the number of deaths has fallen rapidly...
01 February 2012 Elsevier Health Sciences/AJIC
Norovirus: the leading cause of infection outbreaks
Norovirus, a pathogen that often causes food poisoning and gastroenteritis, was responsible for 18.2 percent...
30 January 2012 UNC School of Medicine/PNAS
Lungs infected with plague bacteria also become playgrounds for other microbes
Among medical mysteries baffling many infectious disease experts is exactly how the deadly pneumonic plague...
More News of Infection Research
Les Baillie is a professor for Microbiology at Cardiff University. The principal focus of his research career has been on the organism Bacillus anthracis and its illicit use as a bio-weapon. Early work was driven by the need to develop detection assays and medical countermeasures. Currently the focus of his research is on understanding the biology of Bacillus anthracis.
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.
