Viral load is the quantity of virus in a given amount of patient’s blood.
Synonyms
Virus load
Detailed description
This factor is mainly used to control the therapeutic process of infections with HIV, cytomegaly viruses, hepatitis A viruses and hepatitis B viruses. A high viral load correlates with a severe infection or a poor prognosis, respectively.
Healthcare-associated infections have been growing continuously for years, resulting in hundreds of thousands of avoidable deaths each year. The main culprit is bacteria that have become resistant to
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The Paul-Ehrlich-Institut, the Federal Institute for Vaccines and Biomedicines, today approved the clinical trial of the MVA-SARS-2-S vaccine against COVID-19. The vector vaccine was developed by
Professor Stephan Urban and his team developed the first drug for hepatitis D at the Heidelberg University Hospital. So far, there has been no curative treatment – the number of chronically infected
Bonn, 6. August 2020. Contrary to what has been generally assumed so far, a severe course of COVID-19 does not solely result in a strong immune reaction – rather, the immune response is caught in a
