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The digitally-colorized scanning electron microscopic (SEM) image depicts numerous filamentous Ebola virus particles (blue) budding from a chronically-infected cell.
© National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Recognise and control new variants of the deadly Ebola virus more quickly

Hepatitis B virions (orange coloured)
© CDC/Dr. Erskine Palmer

New therapeutic approach may help to cure chronic hepatitis B infection

Researchers at Helmholtz Zentrum München, Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) have developed a novel therapeutic approach to cure chronic hepatitis
Team Klein
© Uniklinik Köln/Thies Schöning

Highly active HIV antibody restricts development of viral resistance

A research team led by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Florian Klein of the Institute of Virology of the University Hospital Cologne and the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) has identified a new highly
Monkey kidney cells infected with MERS
© Müller/Charité

A new treatment strategy against MERS

First identified in 2012, the MERS-coronavirus is capable of causing severe and often fatal pneumonia. There are no effective treatments for MERS. Researchers from the German Center for Infection
Coronaviren
© cdc/Dr. Fred Murphy & Sylvia Whitfield

Coronavirus research is being carried out at top speed

The first suspected case in Germany has been confirmed. Professor Stephan Becker, virologist at the University of Marburg and coordinator of the DZIF research area “Emerging Infections” reports on the
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Hamburg - Lübeck - Borstel - Riems

Clinical Tuberculosis Centre

The Clinical Tuberculosis Centre provides the expertise and infrastructure for the optimisation, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis (TB) as well as for translating research results into clinical practice. The main objectives of the Clinical Tuberculosis Centre include coordinating clinical research activities involving the DZIF TB cohort. This cohort includes [...]

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Bonn - Cologne | Hamburg - Lübeck - Borstel - Riems | Munich | Tübingen

Neglected tropical diseases

Currently, approximately one billion people worldwide are at risk of developing an inability to work or blindness, becoming maimed or dying due to neglected tropical diseases (NTD). NTDs include river blindness, dengue fever, sleeping sickness, snakebites and leprosy, only to name a few known examples of this diverse group of [...]

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Tübingen

New strategies for specific eradication of Staphylococcus aureus

In this project, the scientists develop genetically engineered phage lysins and specific bacteriocins for the elimination of hospital germs such as Staphylococcus aureus, they clarify mechanisms of potential resistance mechanisms, and they analyse whether broad-spectrum or specifically acting agents have a more effective and lasting effect on colonization by S [...]

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Hanover - Brunswick

Preclinical development of Amidochelocardins

The challenge of antibiotic drug development today is the discovery and optimisation of novel bioactive compounds that do not show cross-resistances with clinically applied antibiotics, ideally due to a novel mode of action (MoA) which adresses unexploited microbial targets. In the case of chelocardin, this antibiotic substance was identified several [...]

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