Eine Kamera ist auf eine reflektierende Glasscheibe gerichtet.
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Antibody test system
© V.C. Corman

MERS coronavirus: A vaccination against all strains?

There is a ray of hope in the fight against the dangerous MERS coronavirus (MERS-CoV): a single vaccine could potentially be sufficient to effectively fight all known MERS-CoV genetic lineages

Novel Bornavirus identified
© Hans Hillewaart

Novel bornavirus identified: Transmission to humans possible

Scientists from the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM) and the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI), both DZIF member establishments, have succeeded in identifying a novel bornavirus

Multi-layered images of lungs help diagnosis and therapy.
© FZ Borstel

New training programme for clinical infectious disease specialists

Today, a new training programme for clinical infectious disease specialists has started, which is probably the first of its kind in Germany. In Hamburg-Lübeck-Borstel, the northernmost partner site of

Genome sequencing
© FZ Borstel

Tuberculosis research: Genetic pathogen code is the key for optimum treatment

Scientists from the Research Center Borstel, the German Center for Infection Research, the Oxford Biomedical Research Centre and the South African National Institute for Communicable Diseases have

Ebola virus
© CDC

Ebola: the evolution of a dreaded virus

In the EU project “EVIDENT”, scientists investigated around 180 patient samples from the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, to elucidate the origin of the epidemic in the individual countries and the

Asisa Volz im Labor
© DZIF/ScienceRelations

MERS coronavirus: Vaccine in development

DZIF researchers at the LMU Munich have successfully tested their candidate vaccine against MERS coronavirus in a preclinical trial. Plans for a clinical trial, in which the virus will be tested in

Three new members of the German Center for Infection Research

The German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) is growing: three new member establishments will now be supporting the DZIF in its research activities, the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI), the

Forschen mit Partnern in Afrika
© Michael Hölscher

Tuberculosis: Research with partners in Africa

The German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) has been playing a significant role in one of five new African-German research networks. Under the name “TB-Sequel”, the BMBF has been funding research

Die M. tuberculosis „sliding clamp“ (DnaN) im Komplex mit (Cyclohexyl-)Griselimycin.
© HZI/Peer Lukat

New hope in the fight against tuberculosis

According to figures of the World Health Organization, some 8.7 million people contracted tuberculosis in 2012 and this disease is fatal for approximately 1.3 million people throughout the world each

Sandra Junglen
© Dr. Sophie Köndgen/Beuth Hochschule für Techn

Researchers discover two new groups of viruses

Researchers at the University of Bonn and the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) have discovered two new groups of viruses within the Bunyavirus family in the tropical forest of Ivory Coast