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31 Oct 2022
Ignaz Semmelweis – The “Savior of Mothers”
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23 news posts in Infectious disease
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25 Apr 2022
World Malaria Day: Meet a researcher using genetic engineering to tackle a serious global disease
By Colm Gorey/Prof Tania de Koning-Ward, Deakin University Prof Tania de Koning-Ward, Deakin University. Image: Deakin University World Malaria Day – held on the 25 April – is an occasion to highlight the need for continued investment and sustained political commitment for malaria prevention and control. To mark this important awareness day, Frontiers caught up with Prof Tania de Koning-Ward to hear how she is contributing to a global effort to prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths each year. Tania de Koning-Ward is a professor in molecular microbiology based at Deakin University’s School of Medicine in Australia and is a senior research fellow of the country’s National Health and Medical Research Council. Here she heads the school’s malaria pathogenesis research group which aims to investigate molecular level, key parasite-host interactions that enable malaria parasites to thrive and survive in their host and cause disease. She has published extensively on the subject, including in an article published to Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology in September 2020. What inspired you to become a researcher? Do you have any specific memories that set off a spark? Growing up, I always enjoyed biology and maths but realized pretty quickly at university that it […]
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27 Sep 2021
Broadening the scope of research on one of Frontiers in Microbiology‘s largest sections
Image: Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock.com Two years have passed since the first Covid-19 case was reported. The impact of the pandemic has been devastating with death toll numbers painting a dismal picture of post recovery on health and on the tourism industry. Scientific revelations from the past years have shown that research on infectious disease transmissions, epidemiology, prevention and treatment is paramount – and so is going beyond the human host. The scope of one of Frontiers in Microbiology‘s largest sections – Infectious Diseases, has been refocused into Infectious Agents and Disease with the aim to: Encourage broader pathogen research advancing the understanding of infectious agents causing disease beyond the human host The re-focus of this highly respected section within the journal aims to welcome a broader audience and submissions that include infectious agents causing dysbiotic conditions, “classical”, emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases in humans as well as in animals and humans in the case of zoonotic infectious diseases. The new scope has been shaped in close consultations with Specialty Chief Editor, Dr Axel Cloeckaert (INRAE, Université de Tours) and the Field Chief Editor, Prof Martin Klotz (Washington State University). “Biological variation as the entire world is now aware with COVID-19 variants, applies […]
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20 Aug 2021
World Mosquito Day: How the pest’s diet could lead to discovery of new antimalarial drug
By Suzanna Burgelman/ PhD student and fellow Trizah Koyi Milugo, ICIPE PhD student and fellow Trizah Koyi Milugo. Image: Trizah Koyi Milugo A preventable disease, malaria still threatens millions of people around the world. World Mosquito Day raises awareness about malaria and its transmission via mosquitos. Researchers such as PhD student Trizah Koyi Milugo focus their research on malaria control and prevention and, in her case, is researching the development of a novel tool for controlling malaria transmission. In 2019, 229m clinical cases of malaria occurred and 409,000 people died of the disease, most of them children in Africa. The disease is found in more than 100 countries worldwide, but roughly 70% of the world’s malaria burden is concentrated in Africa and India. Humans get infected with the malaria virus through mosquito bites. Other than malaria, mosquitos carry an array of dangerous diseases, such as dengue, zika, and west Nile virus. Mosquitos are the world’s deadliest creature. World Mosquito Day raises awareness about the dangers of mosquitos and the devastating consequences of malaria. Trizah Koyi Milugo, a PhD student at the International Center of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), is currently researching the development of a novel tool for controlling […]
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06 May 2020
Early government intervention is key to reducing the spread of COVID-19
Preventive measures in Hunan limited the spread of the novel coronavirus compared to the epidemic in Italy: Frontiers in Medicine
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18 Oct 2019
An innovative new diagnostic for Lyme disease
Lyme disease is one of medicine’s great mimics, and notoriously difficult to diagnose. A new study has uncovered six potential biomarkers for accurate and early identification; Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
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14 Oct 2019
Video games offer clues to help curb animal disease outbreaks
As Asia and Europe battle African swine fever, University of Vermont research shows how farmers’ risk attitudes affect the spread of infectious animal diseases and offers a first-of-its kind model for testing disease control and prevention strategies; Frontiers in Veterinary Science
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10 Jan 2019
Challenges for sex workers in holding the line in condom use
Criminalization of sex work is a primary factor behind a decline in consistent condom use among sex workers in one Australian state: Frontiers in Public Health
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17 Oct 2018
Cancer-fighting drugs also help plants fight disease
The finding could help with efforts to develop disease resistance against fungal infections and other plant pathogens: Frontiers in Plant Science
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15 Oct 2018
Lessons from the 1918 flu pandemic, 100 years on
New challenges will affect the impact of the next influenza pandemic, such as changing demographics, antibiotic resistance and climate change: Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
Health
20 Aug 2018
Combating malaria through vaccines, antibody treatment and apoptotic pathway therapy
Read some of the latest research articles related to Malaria, published in Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
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09 Jul 2018
Genetic diversity helps protect against disease
The finding that a fungal parasite can quickly adapt to a population of genetically identical cyanobacteria helps explain why diversity in populations may be valuable for their preservation: Frontiers in Mirobiology
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30 May 2018
Mass vaccinations will not prevent Ebola virus outbreaks
As the necessary vaccination rate for herd immunity is not yet possible, Ebola control depends on surveillance and isolation of cases: Frontiers in Immunology
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08 Dec 2017
Mosquitoes more likely to transmit dengue virus in hot weather
Local weather conditions could serve as an early warning system for dengue fever outbreaks, suggests a study in Frontiers in Microbiology
Health
25 Oct 2017
Open science helping to eradicate rabies by 2030
A research topic on the control and elimination of dog-mediated human rabies comes at the perfect time to support efforts towards a rabies-free future.