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2020.12.02
Before the vaccine era, diphtheria was the most deadly respiratory infection in young children. There are still outbreaks of diphtheria in some world regions...
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2020.11.26
Urinary tract infections (UTI) are a group of infectious diseases that predominantly impact healthy adult women, although they can also cause serious disease...
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2020.10.27
The Institut Pasteur's outstanding collection of bacterial strains has played a key role in research at the University of California. The collection was used...
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2020.10.21
Between September 2018 and March 2019, a cholera epidemic took place in Zimbabwe, causing 10 000 cases and 69 deaths. The Enteric Bacterial Pathogens Unit at...
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2020.10.08
Antimicrobial resistance could become the leading cause of death in the world, with 10 million deaths in 2050, if nothing is done to prevent it. Today, 400,000...
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2020.06.10
An international study has demonstrated that the microbiota and the intestinal cell death triggered by chemotherapy stimulate the efficacy of the immune...
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2020.06.02
Klebsiella bacteria are responsible for some of the most antibiotic-resistant infections. A major study on intestinal colonization by Klebsiella has shed light...
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2020.07.27
Designing effective new molecules to tackle infectious diseases is a difficult process that currently represents a huge challenge for scientists, especially...
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2020.04.21
The SARS-CoV-2 global pandemic has resulted in extreme measures, with several countries imposing a lockdown on their residents. Like much of the rest of Europe...
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2020.02.13
When a bacterium invades a host, it seeks to proliferate by multiplying. Bacterial cell division is coordinated by several mechanisms including the synthesis...