12-06-05 A parasitic infection called Chagas Disease has similarities to the early spread of HIV, according to research published recently in the journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. 根据《PLoS被忽视的热带疾...

12-04-02 When battling an epidemic of a deadly parasite, less resistance can sometimes be better than more, a new study suggests. A freshwater zooplankton（浮游动物） species known as Daphnia dentifera endures periodic epidemics of a virulent（剧毒的） yeast...

11-12-22 A UCSF study shows a popular treatment for a potentially blinding eye infection is just as effective if given every six months versus annually. This randomized study on trachoma（沙眼） , the leading cause of infection-caused blindness in the world,...

11-08-10 A new University of Colorado Boulder study shows that a small amount of physical exercise could profoundly protect the elderly from long-term memory loss that can happen suddenly following infection, illnesses or injury in old age. In the study, CU-...

11-07-01 A new study shows that differences in the vulnerability（弱点） of animals to a virus are crucial to understanding patterns of infection, and that variation in susceptibility to two marginally different viruses increases the number of infections whe...

11-06-02 Although cytomegalovirus（巨细胞病毒） infection is a known cause of birth defects, including permanent hearing loss, most CMV infections in infants are not identified early, when interventions can lessen the effects of hearing loss. Now, Suresh Bop...

11-05-20 Wolbachia（沃尔巴克氏体属） are bacteria that infect many insects, including mosquitoes. However, Wolbachia do not naturally infect Anopheles mosquitoes, which are the type that spreads malaria（疟疾） to humans. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Blo...

11-05-16 A team of researchers have found that pre-existing malaria（疟疾，瘴气） prevents secondary infection by another Plasmodium strain, the parasite responsible for malaria, by restricting iron availability in the liver of the host. This discovery will...

11-02-18 A rinsing（清水，残渣） technique with betadine that costs just a little over one dollar per patient may significantly reduce the infection rate following total knee and hip joint replacement surgery according to a study by researchers at Rush Unive...

11-01-06 When methicillin（甲氧西林） -resistant S. aureus (MRSA) is carried in the nose ( nares鼻孔 ), it is a risk factor for an invasive infection, including a surgical site infection. Some studies have found that the heavier the carriage of MRSA in the n...