Globally, Brazil has been the hardest hit by the current Zika outbreak. Almost all cases of Zika-associated malformations in newborns have been reported from this country. DZIF scientists from the
Scientists at the Institute of Tropical Medicine of the University of Tübingen, the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), and of Sanaria Inc. have developed an infection system that allows
Tsutsugamushi fever, or “scrub typhus”, is an infectious disease related to typhus, which is endemic in large parts of Asia. The disease has an estimated incidence of approximately one million cases
The first joint study to be conducted across all twelve clinical trial units at the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) has been initiated. The aim of the study is to improve vaccine
An artificially produced inhibitor curbs Ebola virus replication and could be used to develop drugs for life-threatening Ebola virus epidemics. An European team of scientists bases this hope on
The National Reference Center at the Research Center Borstel has confirmed a Europe-wide outbreak of a multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain in 29 refugees from the Horn of Africa. The
An international tuberculosis consortium—including the Research Center Borstel—has succeeded in developing a standardised and internationally recognised method that is able to better predict in
German scientists from the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) and the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) in Braunschweig and Nigerian researchers are applying the new mobile
DZIF researchers from the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS) produced a molecule that provides a way to visualise Pseudomonas infection. The scientists published their
Initial associations with the term “emerging infections” usually involve diseases like Ebola and MERS or chikungunya and Zika fever. However, dangerous zoonoses, i.e. viral infections that can spread
