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Lyme: Rapid bacterial transmission following a tick bite shown in European study

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Lyme borreliosis is a disease caused by bacteria of the genus Borrelia that are transmitted by a bite from a tick of the genus Ixodes. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur used mice to study the transmission...

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Prion diseases: BU researchers define possible molecular pathway for neurodegeneration, targets for treatment

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A new study has shed light on the mechanisms underlying the progression of prion diseases and identified a potential target for treatment. Prion diseases are a group of fatal neurological disorders that...

Long test procedures such as cultivation on agar may soon be a thing of the past when testing patients for multi-resistent pathogens. Image/University of Cologne

New test procedure accelerates the diagnosis of multi-resistant hospital pathogens: German researchers

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A team of researchers at the University of Cologne’s Faculty of Medicine and the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) has achieved a scientific breakthrough in the accelerated diagnosis of...

This is a 3-dimensional illustration showing the different features of an influenza virus, including the surface proteins hemagglutinin (HA) and neuraminidase (NA)/CDC

Influenza virus doesn’t replicate equally in all cells: Minnesota researchers

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The seasonal flu is caused by different subtypes of Influenza A virus and typically leads to the death of half a million people each year. In order to better understand this virus and how it spreads, University...

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The first use of CRISPR genome-wide screening to identify a gene that helps cells resist flavivirus infection

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UT Southwestern researchers today report the first use of CRISPR genome-wide screening to identify a gene that helps cells resist flavivirus infection. That nasty class of pathogens includes West Nile...

This digitally-colorized scanning electron micrograph (SEM) depicts a number of filamentous Ebola virus particles (red) that had budded from the surface of a VERO cell (blue-gray) of the African green monkey kidney epithelial cell line./NIAID

Ebola research: Studies show how antibodies can bind to the virus and stop infection

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Two new studies by scientists at Scripps Research are bringing Ebola virus’s weaknesses into the spotlight, showing for the first time exactly how human and mouse antibodies can bind to the virus and...

One of the veterinarians, co-author of the article, was photographed while obtaining urine and blood samples from cattle in a farm in Uruguay. Such samples allowed for serologic characterization of animals, and eventual isolation/typing of Leptospira spp. strains. Image/Buschiazzo, et al. (2018)

Leptospira variants that infect cattle in Uruguay

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Leptospirosis infections, caused by Leptospira bacteria, occur in people and animals around the world, but different strains of the bacteria may vary in their ability to cause disease and to jump between...

The figure shows how the two variables are linked. Image/European Journal of Public Health

Italy: Public health cuts ‘strongly linked’ to the resurgence of measles, according to study

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Recent trends show that primary reason for the measles outbreak, affecting several European countries, is the decline in vaccination coverage, for which mainly the ‘spread of anti-scientific theories’...

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Nipah and Hendra viruses: How a viral protein promotes fatal disease

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Researchers have identified how a viral protein, which plays a major role in causing deadly Nipah and Hendra virus infections, targets a critical function in human cells to suppress immune responses and...

Salmonella enterica serotype Newport infections in the US: A 10-year study

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A 10-year investigation evaluating data from four surveillance systems captured information on the geographic distribution of outbreaks of Salmonella enterica serotype Newport infections in the U.S., who...