Eine Kamera ist auf eine reflektierende Glasscheibe gerichtet.
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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

The situation is extraordinary: there have only ever been four declarations of public health emergencies of international concern in the past and now there are two at the same time. Whilst the risks

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

Researchers develop first diagnostic test for novel coronavirus in China

Researchers from the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin have developed a new laboratory assay to detect the novel Chinese coronavirus. The assay

Insekten
© Sofia Paraskevopoulou/Charité

Hundreds of novel viruses discovered in insects

New viruses which cause diseases often come from animals. Well-known examples of this are the Zika virus transmitted by mosquitoes, bird flu viruses, as well as the MERS virus which is associated with

BTZ Team Munich
© Tropeninstitut München

Tuberculosis: New drug substance BTZ-043 is being tested on patients for the first time

The Tropical Institute at the Hospital of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich is currently conducting a clinical study led by Professor Michael Hoelscher. Since mid-November, the first

DZIF-Preisträger 2019
© DZIF/ Gerhard Kopatz

2019 DZIF Prizes for Translational Infection Research awarded

Gülşah Gabriel and Stefan Niemann impressed the judges with their scientific work: The German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) is awarding them both a translational infection research prize worth

multidrug-resistant E. coli bacteria
© JLU/Katrina Friese

A new antibiotic to combat drug-resistant bacteria is in sight

An international team of researchers, with the participation of Giessen University and the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), discovered a new active substance effective against gram

Working together to develop strategies against infectious diseases

We previously thought we had conquered infectious diseases. Now they are once again one of the most common causes of death all over the world. It has since become clear that the increase in antibiotic