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Rat hepatitis E virus can cause disease in humans: Hong Kong researchers

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Rat hepatitis E virus (rat HEV) was first discovered in 2010 and circulates in house rats (Rattus rattus) and sewer rats (Rattus norvegicus). It is very distantly related to human hepatitis E virus variants....

Common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) captured in Belize. Image/Becker, et al (2018)

Vampire bats: 2/3s of those tested were found to be Bartonella carriers in study

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Bartonella are bacteria that cause endocarditis, a potentially life-threatening illness in humans and domestic animals. In Latin America, common vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) are frequently infected...

An artist's rendition of HIV (foreground). The knobs (purple) covering the virus are sugar-protein molecules, including gp120, that shield the rest of the virus (pink). Image/National Cancer Institute

HIV: Rare father-to-son transmission reported in study

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Diagnosis of HIV-1 infection in the 4-year old child of an HIV-negative mother led to a forensic analysis to determine the source of the infection and try to date the transmission of the virus. The results...

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Enterotoxigenic E. coli research to be used in an effort to develop a preventive vaccine for travelers

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Every year, millions of people have vacations and business trips ruined when they succumb to “traveler’s diarrhea” during their journeys. A major cause of traveler’s diarrhea is...

Ixodes ricinus Public domain image/WHO via CDC

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...