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Negative-stained transmission electron micrograph in black and white of round hepatitis B virus particles in white, in which internal structures are visible, against a dark background.

Sep 28 2022

New study shows significant antiviral activity of the agent bulevirtide for the treatment of chronic hepatitis D virus infection

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Sep 16 2022

Prof. Oliver Cornely receives Johann Lucas Schönlein Plaque from the German-speaking Mycological Society

Prof. Oliver Cornely, infectiologist and coordinator of the DZIF Clinical Trial Unit at the University Hospital Cologne, has been awarded the Johann Lucas Schönlein Plaque by the German-speaking

Left panel: grey electron microscopic image of rod-shaped M. tuberculosis bacteria; right panel: image of a circular phylogenetic tree depicting the genetic relationship between M. tuberculose strains

Aug 31 2022

Personalised antibiotic treatment strategies for tuberculosis patients

is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, with an estimated 1.4 million deaths and ten million people infected annually. Resistant and multidrug-resistant (MDR) variants of the

Namibian mother and daughter, dressed in T-shirts and skirts, the woman additionally wearing a green-brownish-coloured headscarf, squatting in front of a light blue-coloured wall.Eine afrikanische Mutter mit Tocher, beide tragen T-Shirts und Röcke, die Mutter zudem ein grün-schwarz gemustertes gebundenes Kopftuch. Beide hocken vor einer hellblau gesprichenen Wand.

Aug 14 2022

BCG tuberculosis vaccine only effective in early childhood

In the early 20th century, French scientists Albert Calmette and Camille Guérin developed a from the bovine bacterium Mycobacterium bovis, which was named BCG (Bacillus Calmette

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