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Current News comprises short summaries of recent findings that address important or controversial areas of infection research.

Anopheles albimanus mosquito, a vector of malaria. Source: James Gathany, CDC

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 as efforts to...

Norovirus particles. Source: CDC/ C. D. Humphrey

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 of all infection...

Virulent bacteria (red) quickly establish a permissive environment for the growth of non-virulent microbes (green). © Goldman Lab, UNC-Chapel Hill.

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 bacterium, Yersinia...

27 January 2012 Michigan State University/Science

Researchers show how new viruses evolve

Researchers at Michigan State University have demonstrated how a new virus evolves, shedding light on how easy it can be to gain...

Isolated bacteria being deposited on metal plate. Credit: B. Buescher, University Hospital Essen

25 January 2012 SGM/Journal of Medical Microbiology

New detection method for UTI-causing bacteria

A new method for identifying bacteria that cause urinary tract infections (UTIs) will lead to much faster, more effective...

Researchers created synthetic nanoparticles that target lymph nodes and greatly boost vaccine responses. © S. Soderberg, University of Michigan

23 January 2012 Duke University Med Center/Nature Materials

Vaccines to boost immunity where it counts

Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have created synthetic nanoparticles that target lymph nodes and greatly boost...

Colorized scanning electron micrograph of Escherichia coli bacteria. Source: Janice Haney Carr / CDC

19 January 2012 University of Utah/Cell Host & Microbe

Bacterial toxin plays role in urinary tract infections

Researchers from the University of Utah have identified a process by which the most common types of urinary tract...

Stained electron micrograph of an influenza virus particle. Source: CDC/ C. Goldsmith

17 January 2012 CU's Mailman School of Public Health/PNAS

Does La Niña lead to flu pandemics?

Worldwide pandemics of influenza caused widespread death and illness in 1918, 1957, 1968 and 2009. A new study examining weather...

Toxoplasma gondii in mouse ascitic fluid. Source: CDC/ L.L. Moore, Jr.

13 January 2012 Boston College/Science

A protein that could 'turn off' disease carrier

Researchers from Boston College have discovered a protein that plays a pivotal role in the progression of the deadly diseases...

These are electron micrographs of Chlamydia mutant inside a of a cell. These particular mutant bacteria, colored red, are defective in secreting high levels of virulence proteins, seen here as the...

10 January 2012 Duke University Medical Center/PNAS

New way to learn about traits in harmful pathogens

Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have developed a new way to identify the genes of harmful microbes, particularly...

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