In infection biology, persistence refers to a pathogen being able to survive in a patient’s body.
Detailed description
Pathogen persistence means that a pathogen continuously replicates like during a chronic infection or that it survives in a silent form in a refuge space within the body. Certain conditions can reactivate the silent form and cause again disease.
Worldwide, approximately 260 million people suffer from chronic hepatitis B which is currently incurable. However, there is now a shimmer of hope on the horizon as scientists at the DZIF have
Scientists from the Hannover Medical School (MHH) have elucidated how Helicobacter pylori causes gastritis. Chronic infections with the globally ubiquitous pathogen can also lead to gastric ulcers and
