News

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

28 May 2010 PLoS Pathogens/ University of Michigan

Flu doesn't die out, it hides out

Every autumn, as predictably as falling leaves, flu season descends upon us. Every spring, just as predictably, the season comes...

27 May 2010 The Lancet

As antiretroviral treatment (ART) is scaled up in Africa and other settings where resources remain limited, its potential...

26 May 2010 PloS Neglected Tropical Disease

The most common aquatic habitat in Dar es Salaam – drains – are important vectors for the development of lymphatic filariasis...

24 May 2010 American Society for Microbiology/ mBio™

New research shows that nearly 1 in 5 cases of infection with the potentially deadly fungus Cryptococcus neoformans are caused by...

21 May 2010 NIH/National Human Genome Research Institute

The Human Microbiome Project (HMP) published an analysis of 178 genomes from microbes that live in or on the human body. The...

19 May 2010 BioMed Central

Vaccinia immunization, as given to prevent the spread of smallpox, produces a five-fold reduction in HIV replication in the...

18 May 2010 American Thoracic Society

Google Flu Trends is not as accurate at estimating rates of laboratory-confirmed influenza as CDC national surveillance programs,...

17 May 2010 Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Noroviruses, infamous for causing outbreaks of gastroenteritis on cruise ships, may now be recognized as a common cause of...

12 May 2010 Int. J. of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

A new bacterial species, found in the gut of the fly that transmits African sleeping sickness, could be engineered to kill the...

11 May 2010 Rockefeller University Press/Cell Biology

New research helps explain how the toxic protein responsible for botulism can enter circulation from the digestive system. The...