Tag: Infectious/Emerging Diseases

A new study published today in Nature Communications shows a promising alternative for those who have to take a daily ...

Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a potentially deadly, antibiotic-resistant bacterium present in hospitals, can be killed by hijacking its haem-acquisition system to selectively ...

Credit: Xin-Ni Lim, Emerging Infectious Diseases Programme, Duke-NUS Medical School Dengue virus (DENV) infects about 400 million people annually around ...

Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--Creating mutations in a key Ebola virus protein that helps the deadly virus escape from the ...

Credit: Woolsey and Menicucci et al./Cell Reports Inoculation with an Ebola virus that has mutations in a protein called VP35 ...

Credit: University of Rochester Medical Center A new needle-free flu vaccine patch revved up the immune system much like a ...

Credit: Santiago Sanchez-Vicente, Stony Brook University In a study published in mBio, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology, ...

Credit: Derren Ready (2012) CIL:38942, CIL. Dataset. https://doi.org/doi:10.7295/W9CIL38942 Creative Commons license True or false? Bacteria living in the same space, ...

Credit: NIH/NIAID WHAT: Sexually transmitted infections, or STIs, pose a significant public health challenge. Globally, more than one million new ...

Credit: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Australia Emeritus Professor Jacques Miller AC from Melbourne's Walter and Eliza Hall Institute has ...

Credit: UBC Scientists have shown for the first time a link between two types of heart problems and one of ...

The discovery by UMD researchers suggests 'functional mosaicism' could explain some antibiotic resistance and cancer relapseCredit: Snusha Ravikumar/University of Maryland ...

Credit: Bill Baker The frigid waters of the Antarctic may yield a treatment for a deadly disease that affects populations ...

Discovery could lead to new added therapy for HIV patientsCredit: Texas Biomedical Research Institute San Antonio, Texas (September 11, 2019) ...

Credit: Belenky Lab / Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Antibiotics save countless lives each year from harmful bacterial infections -- ...

Researchers from Osaka University find that a relatively ancient drug efflux pump in Haemophilus influenzae confers resistance to the same ...

Credit: Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute A single viral factor released from HIV-infected cells may wreak havoc on the body ...

Credit: Tyler M. Sharp (CC BY 4.0) The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently developed an Autocidal ...

ECDC estimate: around 9 million Europeans live with chronic hepatitis B or CCredit: ECDC European surveillance data show on-going transmission ...

Genes found to safeguard against infection as well as resuscitate infected cells, Tel Aviv University researchers say The Zika virus ...