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Current News comprises short summaries of recent findings that address important or controversial areas of infection research.
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 their replication, have...
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 week's PLoS Medicine that...
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 pathogen’s modus...
26 July 2010 ACS Nano
Antibacterial paper fights disease-causing bacteria
A new form of paper with the built-in ability to fight disease-causing bacteria could have applications that range from...
23 July 2010 British Medical Journal
HPV vaccine protects against pre-cancerous lesions
Vaccination against certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV) gives strong and sustained protection against genital warts and...
21 July 2010 Heidelberg University Hospital/Science Transl Med
Antibiotics for the prevention of malaria
If mice are administered an antibiotic for three days and are simultaneously infected with malaria, no parasites appear in the...
19 July 2010 NIAID/PLoS One
Scientists find toxin that may be key to MRSA severity
A research project to identify all the surface proteins of USA300—the most common community-associated strain of the...
15 July 2010 University of Toronto/AIDS
Future HIV vaccines: If we build it, will they come?
On the eve of the world's biggest AIDS conference this month in Austria, a new research review shows many people wouldn't get...
13 July 2010 Norwich BioScience Institutes/PNAS
Genes identified for the making of a new antibiotic
Scientists have identified the genes necessary for making a highly potent and clinically unexploited antibiotic in the fight...
12 July 2010 MA General Hospital/Clinical Infectious Diseases
Universal HIV testing can not stop AIDS epidemic
Implementing a program of universal HIV testing and immediate antiretroviral treatment (ART) for infected individuals could have...
