Mortality | German Center for Infection Research

Short description

Mortality refers to the number of deaths in a certain period of time, scaled to the size of the population

Synonyms

Death rate

Todesrate

Detailed description

The reference period for the mortality rate is usually one year. Moreover, event-specific, age-specific and disease-specific mortality rates can be calculated.

May 2022

J Clin Med

Surgical Procedure Time and Mortality in Patients with Infective Endocarditis Caused by Staphylococcus aureus or Streptococcus Species

Autoren

Paul G et al.

Left panel: grey electron microscopic image of rod-shaped M. tuberculosis bacteria; right panel: image of a circular phylogenetic tree depicting the genetic relationship between M. tuberculose strains

Personalised antibiotic treatment strategies for tuberculosis patients

Tuberculosis is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, with an estimated 1.4 million deaths and ten million people infected annually. Resistant and multidrug-resistant (MDR) variants of the

Namibian mother and daughter, dressed in T-shirts and skirts, the woman additionally wearing a green-brownish-coloured headscarf, squatting in front of a light blue-coloured wall.Eine afrikanische Mutter mit Tocher, beide tragen T-Shirts und Röcke, die Mutter zudem ein grün-schwarz gemustertes gebundenes Kopftuch. Beide hocken vor einer hellblau gesprichenen Wand.

BCG tuberculosis vaccine only effective in early childhood

In the early 20th century, French scientists Albert Calmette and Camille Guérin developed a vaccine from the bovine tuberculosis bacterium Mycobacterium bovis, which was named BCG (Bacillus Calmette

Electron microscopic image of green-coloured MERS-coronavirus particles. Clearly visible are the spike-proteins on the surface of the virus particles that resemble a crown and give the coronavirus its name.

Booster vaccination with newly developed vaccine against MERS-CoV leads to robust long-lasting immunity

Besides SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2, the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is among the highly pathogenic coronaviruses that can lead to severe respiratory disease and death. It is

Lab of the US Military HIV Research Program (MHRP), showing two researchers and workplaces with computers and blood sample tubes.

Diagnostic biomarker for early detection of active tuberculosis in HIV-infected individuals

Specific biomarkers in the blood can indicate the onset of tuberculosis (TB) in HIV-infected individuals six to twelve months earlier than TB diagnosis by sputum. This is the finding of researchers

Apr 2022

United European Gastroenterol J

COVID-19 mortality in cirrhosis is determined by cirrhosis-associated comorbidities and extrahepatic organ failure: Results from the multinational LEOSS registry

Autoren

Brozat JF et al.

Apr 2022

Infection

SARS-CoV-2 infection in chronic kidney disease patients with pre-existing dialysis: description across different pandemic intervals and effect on disease course (mortality)

Autoren

Pilgram L et al.

The DZG celebrated its 10th anniversary with a ceremony and prominent guests from science and politics in Berlin.

Ten years of DZG: "Pacesetters in health research"

Four of six German Centres for Health Research (DZG) celebrated their tenth anniversary today with a ceremony in Berlin and around 300 guests from the worlds of politics and science. Federal Research

Tübingen

Antibiotic-resistant bacterial pathogens (ARBPs)

Antibiotic-resistant bacterial pathogens (ARBPs) are a global problem. ARBPs are becoming increasingly prevalent and cause severe morbidity and mortality in industrial and developing countries alike. It is foreseeable that current, antibiotic-based regimes to treat bacterial infections will become ...

German network against antimicrobial resistance launched

New antibiotics are urgently needed to counter the rapidly increasing spread of resistance. The German Network against Antimicrobial Resistance (DNAMR) was founded to promote the development of new