News

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

07 September 2011 PLoS Pathogens

Cryptococcus infections misdiagnosed in many AIDS patients

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....

19 August 2011 Emory University / Immunity

Researchers at the Emory Vaccine Center have identified the conditions that make memory T cells slip away during persistent...

18 August 2011 California Institute of Technology /Nature

Much like cities organize contingency plans and supplies for emergencies, chronic infectious diseases like HIV form reservoirs...

17 August 2011 NIH/The Journal of Infectious Diseases

Children younger than 3 years old receive the same protective antibody response from the recommended two doses of licensed...