Daten zu SARS-CoV-2-bedingten Ausbrüchen in Kitas können wichtige Hinweise zur Einschätzung des Infektionsgeschehens im Kita-Setting liefern und sind ein wichtiger Bestandteil in der Gesamtbewertung des Pandemiegeschehens. ...

Der diesjährige internationale Weltlepratag steht unter dem Motto „United for Dignity“ und ruft dazu auf, gemeinsam die Würde Leprabetroffener, von denen viele nach wie vor unter krankheitsbedingter Stigmatisierung und ...

Die Rolle von Schulen hinsichtlich des allgemeinen Pandemiegeschehens ist strittig. Um zur Beantwortung der Frage beizutragen, ob Schulen Ausgangspunkte für Infektionsherde darstellen, wurden Daten der Hamburger Behörde ...

Paenibacilli are efficient producers of potent agents against bacterial and fungal pathogens, which are of great interest both for therapeutic applications in medicine as well as in agrobiotechnology. Lipopeptides produced ...

Nipah virus (NiV) is a highly pathogenic zoonotic virus with a broad species tropism, originating in pteropid bats. Human outbreaks of NiV disease occur almost annually, often with high case-fatality rates. The specific ...

Functionality of the accessory gene regulator (agr) quorum sensing system is an important factor promoting either acute or chronic infections by the notorious opportunistic human and veterinary pathogen Staphylococcus ...

Studies of virus–host interactions in vitro may be hindered by biological characteristics of conventional monolayer cell cultures that differ from in vivo infection. Three-dimensional (3D) cell cultures show more in vivo-like ...

Viruses evolve extremely quickly, so reliable meth- ods for viral host prediction are necessary to safe- guard biosecurity and biosafety alike. Novel human- infecting viruses are difficult to detect with stan- dard ...

Background: As next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies have experienced a rapid development over the last decade, the investigation of the bacterial genetic architecture reveals a high potential to dissect causal ...

Background: Resistance plasmids are under selective conditions beneficial for the bacterial host, but in the absence of selective pressure, this carriage may cause fitness costs. Compensation of this fitness burden is ...