News

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

18 June 2010 NEJM/UNC School of Medicine

How to prevent HIV transmission through breast milk

The largest study to date to examine methods to prevent HIV infection among breastfeeding infants concludes that giving...

17 June 2010 UW Madison /Emerging Infectious Diseases

Establishing a firm link between environmental change and human disease has always been an iffy proposition. Now, however, a team...

16 June 2010 PloS Medicine

A study published this week in PLoS Medicine by Simon Hay and colleagues from the Malaria Atlas Project (MAP) concludes that...

14 June 2010 Max-Planck-Society

For a successful infection, bacteria must outwit the immune system of the host. To this aim, they deliver so-called virulence...

10 June 2010 JAMA

An outbreak of infection due to linezolid and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (LRSA) in 12 intensive care unit...

08 June 2010 PNAS/ University of Leeds

Common drugs used to treat conditions such as diabetes and obesity could be used to successfully treat hepatitis C virus...

06 June 2010 Science

Scientists have discovered a group of peptides produced by Staphylococcus aureus, including the drug-resistant strain MRSA, that...

04 June 2010 Science/ University of Washington

When certain bacteria reproduce by splitting in two, one cell inherits a propeller for swimming and the other builds a stalk to...

02 June 2010 PloS Medicine/ Imperial College London

Six public health challenges and data needs are evident, based upon lessons learned from the 2009 influenza pandemic. These are...

31 May 2010 Cell/Rutgers University

Nihal Altan-Bonnet, assistant professor of cell biology, Rutgers University in Newark, and her research team have made a...