News

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

05 January 2012 Entomological Society of America

How can Lyme disease be prevented and controlled?

Lyme disease is the most commonly reported vector-borne disease in the United States, with the majority of cases occurring in the...

03 January 2012 University of North Carolina /PNAS

Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, working with colleagues from the University of Colorado, have...

29 December 2011 PloS One

The microbes on your skin determine how attractive you are to mosquitoes, which may have important implications for malaria...

20 December 2011 Wellcome Trust/Nature Communications

A new candidate malaria vaccine with the potential to neutralise all strains of the most deadly species of malaria parasite has...

14 December 2011 WHO

Malaria mortality rates have fallen by more than 25% globally since 2000, and by 33% in the WHO African Region, according to the...

13 December 2011 Trudeau Institute/Nature Immunology

New research from the laboratory of Dr. Elizabeth Leadbetter at the Trudeau Institute may lead to a whole new class of vaccines....

09 December 2011 Paul-Ehrlich-Institut/PLoS Pathogens

While the human immunodeficiency virus replicates extremely rapidly in some of the human immune cells, other cells remain...

08 December 2011 Albert Einstein College of Medicine/PLoS One

An antimalarial agent developed by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University proved effective at...

07 December 2011 University of Gothenburg

Researchers at the University of Gothenburg's Sahlgrenska Academy have discovered a brand new tick-borne infection. Since the...

01 December 2011 Univ of Utah/Journal of Infectious Diseases

A team of researchers from the University of Utah and the University of Massachusetts has identified the first gene associated...