News

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

09 July 2010 Tufts Univ./Nature Structural & Molecular Biology

Map of herpes virus protein suggests drug therapy

The mechanism by which a herpes virus invades cells has remained a mystery to scientists seeking to thwart this family of...

08 July 2010 American Society for Microbiology/mBio™

Ear infections caused by more than one species of bacteria could be more persistent and antibiotic-resistant because one pathogen...

06 July 2010 Twincore/PLoS Pathogens

The hepatitis C virus is highly specialised. We humans are its natural hosts. The only other living organisms that could be...

05 July 2010 CU`s Mailman School of Public Health/PLoS Pathogens

Viral hepatitis affects more than 500 million people worldwide and is a cause of liver failure and liver cancer. While vaccines...

01 July 2010 mBio/American Society for Microbiology

Scientists have completed the most comprehensive comparative analysis to date of bacterial communities inhabiting the human nose...

30 June 2010 PloS Medicine

Solomon Nwaka from the UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) at the...

29 June 2010 York University

Protecting ourselves from backyard mosquito bites may come down to leaving the vacuuming for later, a study from York University...

25 June 2010 NEJM/ Imperial College London

A vaccine-derived strain of poliovirus that has spread in recent years is serious but it can be tackled with an existing vaccine.

23 June 2010 BioMed Central

Sampling of pigeons captured on the streets of Madrid has revealed the bacterial pathogens they carry. Researchers writing in...

22 June 2010 University of Colorado at Boulder /PNAS

A new study indicates different delivery methods of newborn babies have a big effect on the types of microbial communities they...