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Current News comprises short summaries of recent findings that address important or controversial areas of infection research.
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 tract infections...
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 Health Protection...
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 children under five...
10 May 2012 Aeras
Agreement signed to develop tuberculosis vaccine
Aeras and the Infectious Disease Research Institute (IDRI) announce today a new agreement to conduct joint development activities...
09 May 2012 The Journal of Infectious Diseases
The role of a grocery bag in norovirus outbreak
Oregon investigators recently mapped the trail of an outbreak of a nasty stomach bug among participants in a girls' soccer...
04 May 2012 University of Manchester/PLoS One
Drugs against host proteins might block infections
Scientists have discovered an Achilles heel within our cells that bacteria are able to exploit to cause and spread infection. The...
03 May 2012 University of Wisconsin-Madison/Nature
After epic debate, avian flu research sees light of day
After a marathon debate over a pair of studies that show how the avian H5N1 influenza virus could become transmissible in...
30 April 2012 Case Western Reserve University/Science
Handling anaerobic stress
Bacteria provide a well-known playground for scientists and the evolution of these earliest life forms has shed important...
27 April 2012 National Jewish Health/Immunity
Bacteria subverts immune response to aid infection
Listeria, one of the most deadly causes of bacterial food poisoning, subverts a normally protective immune response to spread its...
24 April 2012 University of Bonn/Nature Communications
Bats may be a common source of many viral diseases
International researchers under the aegis of the University of Bonn have discovered the probable cause of not just one, but...
