News

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

14 September 2011 Molecular Ecology

Are 'dirty' wild mice a better immunology model?

A study on natural killer cells in wild mice published in Molecular Ecology examines the hypothesis that the unsterile living...

12 September 2011 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Scientists have now found out how yeast cells identify and attach to human tissue in order to colonise it and cause an infection....

08 September 2011 National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases / Science Express

Using live but weakened malaria parasites as the basis of a vaccine represents a potentially encouraging anti-malaria strategy,...

07 September 2011 PLoS Pathogens

Most AIDS patients, when diagnosed with a fungal infection known simply as cryptococcosis, are assumed to have an infection with...

06 September 2011 John Innes Centre / PNAS

A novel way of increasing the amounts of antibiotics produced by bacteria has been discovered that could markedly improve the...

01 September 2011 McMaster University/Nature

Scientists were surprised at how fast bacteria developed resistance to the miracle antibiotic drugs when they were developed less...

30 August 2011 The Journal of Infectious Diseases

Vaccinating infants against rotavirus also prevents serious disease in unvaccinated older children and adults, according to a...

26 August 2011 University of Copenhagen/Malaria Journal

The incidence of malaria in many African countries south of the Sahara is falling rapidly. A Danish-Tanzanian research group has...

24 August 2011 Society for General Microbiology / Journal of Medical Microbiology

Coriander oil has been shown to be toxic to a broad range of harmful bacteria. Its use in foods and in clinical agents could...

23 August 2011 Norwich BioScience Institutes

Virus-produced proteins that destroy bacterial cells may be used to combat potentially dangerous microbial infections....