Infectious Diseases – News and Features

Sscientists at Imperial College London and Johns Hopkins University have shown that HIV is unable to damage the immune system if cholesterol is removed from the virus's membrane.

A metabolomics approach using high mass accuracy ultrahigh pressure liquid chromatography mass spectrometry was utilized to investigate the circulatory biomarkers in newly diagnosed untreated leprosy patients.

This article describes a new strategy based on recombinant viruses expressing tagged viral proteins to capture both direct and indirect physical binding partners during infection.

Patient recruitment in Phase II SHIGATEC study during October 2011, just before the upcoming high season for Shiga toxin-producing E. coli bacteria infections in South America.

This study demonstrates how the Group A streptococcus PCR assay appeared to perform as well as the current standard of practice, conventional throat swab culture.

Mr. Trizzino will also be appointed to the board of directors of the Corporation upon joining as Chief Executive Officer.

Researchers from The University of California have described the X-ray crystallographic structure of a designed cyclic beta-sheet peptide that forms a well-defined hydrogen-bonded dimer that mimics beta-sheet dimers formed by proteins.

This paper elucidates for the first time the genetic and structural basis of strain-specificity by a direct comparison of two genetically related noroviruses in their interaction with different histo-blood group antigens.

The results of the study, based on data from a community-based clinical trial of Cervarix in Costa Rica.

The origin of three costly cattle diseases is genetically linked, according to findings from U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) researchers.