News

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

29 November 2011 BWH/Nature Medicine

Researchers develop stronger vaccine prototype

Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) researchers have created a vaccine that is more potent than traditional vaccines available...

24 November 2011 NIH/Nature

HIV is coated in sugars that usually hide the virus from the immune system. Newly published research reveals how one broadly...

22 November 2011 Journal of Clinical Investigation

As people age, their immune system becomes less robust. This makes them more susceptible to serious and frequently...

17 November 2011 Nationwide Children's Hospital/PLoS Path

Bacteria responsible for middle ear infections, pink eye and sinusitis protect themselves from further immune attack by...

16 November 2011 JHU Bloomberg School of Public Health/PNAS

A study conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute and their Zambian colleagues detected...

15 November 2011 Duke University Medical Center/ PNAS

A commonly held theory says that flu virus originates every year in Southeast and Eastern Asia, making this region the source of...

11 November 2011 Infectious Diseases Society of America

Vaccination against Haemophilus influenzae type b, or Hib, once the most common cause of bacterial meningitis in children, has...

09 November 2011 Inst of Trop Medicine Antwerp/PLoS Medicine

For some time now, artemisinin, derived from a Chinese herb, has been the most powerful treatment available against malaria. To...

07 November 2011 Children's Hospital Boston/Pediatrics

During the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, many previously healthy children became critically ill, developing severe pneumonia and...

02 November 2011 MIT/Nature

Much as people can exchange information instantaneously in the digital age, bacteria associated with humans and their livestock...