New Clues in the Fever Mystery: What’s Making Millions Sick in Sub-Saharan Africa?
A study on FUO in Guinea found diverse bacterial and viral infections, frequent misdiagnoses, and high antibiotic resistance, ...
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New mRNA Vaccine Against World's Biggest Infectious Killer Shows Promise
A new mRNA vaccine against tuberculosis (TB) is showing favorable results in preclinical trials. With only one currently ...
Exploring the dark side of Staph aureus, a bacterium resistant to multiple drugs—even those yet to be tested in humans
British physician and microbiologist Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin nearly 100 years ago, was the first to warn ...
AI cracks superbug problem in two days that took scientists years
A complex problem that took microbiologists a decade to get to the bottom of has been solved in just two days by a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool. Professor José R Penadés and his team at ...
New mRNA vaccine tested in mice has potential to help fight tuberculosis
A new vaccine that boosts immunity against tuberculosis (TB) has been shown to be effective in pioneering pre-clinical trials ...
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Digging Into a Decades-Old Hepatitis B Mystery Suggests a New Potential Treatment
In their effort to answer a decades-old biological question about how the hepatitis B virus (HBV) is able to establish ...
How M. tuberculosis alters host cell death mechanisms to facilitate infection
Mammalian hosts coordinate various cell death pathways as part of the immune defense system against pathogens including ...
12 Facts About Tuberculosis, the Victorian “Robber of Youth”
Tuberculosis may seem like a historic malady, but it’s still the world’s deadliest infectious disease. Here’s what you need ...