News

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

27 July 2011 PLoS Medicine

New TB drug-resistance test shows promise

Two research studies in this week's PLoS Medicine suggest that a new automated DNA test for tuberculosis (Xpert MTB/RIF), which...

26 July 2011 University of Houston / PNAS

Scientists have studied how bacteria move along various surfaces before they form potentially dangerous biofilms. The study could...

21 July 2011 University of Washington / Nature

Microbiologists have uncovered a sneaky trick by the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa to oust rivals. It deploys a toxin delivery...

20 July 2011 Georgia Institute of Technology/Nature Materials

A new family of contrast agents that sneak into bacteria disguised as glucose food can detect bacterial infections in animals...

18 July 2011 Linkoeping Universitet/PLoS Pathogens

It is well known that viruses like rotavirus and norovirus are behind the majority of stomach infections. But it was unclear how...

14 July 2011 Purdue University/Nature

Purdue University biologists identified a new way in which bacteria hijack healthy cells during infection, which could provide a...

11 July 2011 Université Laval/ Conference of the ISSTDR

An international research team has discovered a strain of gonorrhea resistant to all currently available antibiotics. This new...

08 July 2011 Scripps Research Institute/ ScienceExpress

Annually changing flu vaccines with their hit-and-miss effectiveness may soon give way to a single, near-universal flu vaccine,...

06 July 2011 Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

When a person living in a malarial area gets a fever, health workers need to know the cause to make absolutely sure they give the...

01 July 2011 PloS Computational Biology

A new study shows that differences in the vulnerability of animals to a virus are crucial to understanding patterns of infection,...