Tag: Infectious/Emerging Diseases

Survey of 20 centers nationwide reveals impacts of reduced servicesCredit: University of Michigan When the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in North ...

Study evaluates the filtration efficacy of 227 commercially available face masks in Brazil

Models for professional use were the most effective at retaining aerosol particles of a size equivalent to the novel coronavirus, ...

Metal ions help COVID-19 virus to disguise itself

Positively charged atoms steady the machinery that the virus uses to trick the systemCredit: Yogesh Gupta, PhD, The University of ...

Low-wage earners spent less time at home during early pandemic lockdown

Researchers tracked data from millions of mobile phone users in major US metropolitan areas and compared the data to neighborhood ...

Future Pandemic? Consider Radically Altering Animal Agriculture Practices

FAU Bioethicist Offers Plausible Solutions to Mitigate Zoonotic Risk from Agriculture and Food Production for Public HealthCredit: Adam Bernstein As ...

Clinical Trial Evaluating Mixed COVID-19 Vaccine Schedules Begins

NIH Trial to Evaluate Safety, Immunogenicity of Various Vaccine Booster RegimensCredit: NIAID The National Institutes of Health has started a ...

NIH launches clinical trial of universal influenza vaccine candidate

Nanoparticle vaccine developed by NIAID scientistsCredit: NIAID A first-in-human, Phase 1 trial assessing the safety and immunogenicity of an investigational ...

Malaria parasite’s partiality for the spleen

Credit: Woodford J, Gillman A, Jenvey P, Roberts J, Woolley S, Barber BE, et al. (2021) Positron emission tomography and ...

Direct action of SARS-CoV-2 on organs may cause exacerbated immune response in children

Researchers found that SARS-CoV-2 had spread throughout the body via the blood vessels, infecting various types of cell and tissue ...

Chimeric viruses unearth hidden gems in dengue virus structure

Credit: (C) Associate Professor Fasseli Coulibaly In a recent study, Australian scientists used an original approach to resolve the 3D ...

Genetic treasure trove for malaria researchers

Rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus during COVID-19 quarantine period

The article by Dr. Michael L. Tee and colleagues is published in The Open Rheumatology Journal, 2021Credit: Dr. Michael L. ...

Danish invention preserves muscle mass in COVID-19 patients

Researchers from Aarhus University have developed electronic support stockings and tested them on bed-ridden Covid patients at Copenhagen University Hospitals. ...

LJI and Synbal, Inc. partner to develop better COVID-19 models

New mouse models may shed light on the puzzling aspects of SARS-CoV-2 infectionCredit: La Jolla Institute for Immunology LA JOLLA--The ...

Prognostic value of troponin I in COVID-19 patients

This article by Dr. Alaa A. Ghaleb and colleagues is published in The Open Cardiovascular Medicine Journal, 2021Credit: Dr. Alaa ...

Helping doctors manage COVID-19

New tool uses AI technology to assess the severity of lung infections and inform treatmentCredit: University of Waterloo Artificial intelligence ...

Mass gatherings during Malaysian election directly and indirectly boosted COVID-19 spread

New computational method could deepen understanding of direct and spill-over effects of gatheringsCredit: Lim JT et al., 2021, PLOS Computational ...

Bacterium causing rabbit fever remains virulent for months in cold water

Study solves a long-term mystery, providing a plausible explanation for how Francisella tularensis can overwinter in the environment outside of ...

New study confirms noble false widow spiders bites can result in hospitalization

NUI Galway study confirms that the Noble False Widow spider does have public health implicationsCredit: Dr John Dunbar, Venom Systems ...

Atlas of malaria parasite gene activity provides new targets for drugs and vaccines