Antibiotikaresistenz stellt eine der größten Herausforderungen für die Gesundheitsversorgung des 21. Jahrhunderts dar. Dieser Artikel beleuchtet die ethischen Probleme, die als Resultat der Antibiotikaresistenz entstehen. ...

Background Xenotransplantation using pig cells, tissues and organs may help to overcome the shortage of human tissues and organs for the treatment of tissue and organ failure. Progress in the prevention of immunological ...

Im Rahmen des Projekts „IMOA – Improving Health Monitoring in Older Age“ sollen Grundlagen für ein indikatorengestütztes Public-Health-Monitoring der Bevölkerung ab 65 Jahren erarbeitet werden. Ziel des hier vorgestellten ...

The discovery of smallpox vaccination by Edward Jenner in 1796 gave a new perspective to science in the struggle against this devastating disease. Smallpox has claimed hundreds of millions of lives over the centuries. ...

A Bacillus anthracis vaccine strain (Sterne), used as an attenuated laboratory comparative strain, was sequenced and analyzed. A comparison to assemblies of B. anthracis strain Sterne (NZ_CP009541 and NZ_CP009540) was ...

Between 1 June 2016 and 31 May 2017, 17 European Union (EU) and European Economic Area countries reported 4,096 cases associated with a multi-country hepatitis A (HA) outbreak. Molecular analysis identified three co-circulating ...

An aim of the ECDC point prevalence survey (PPS) in European Union/European Economic Area acute care hospitals was to acquire standardised healthcare-associated infections (HAI) data. We analysed one of the most common ...

From December 2013 to March 2016, West Africa experienced the largest Ebola virus (EBOV) outbreak to date, leading to a European-wide activation of laboratory preparedness and response. At the end of the outbreak, laboratories ...

Background Notified cases of hepatitis E have increased 40-fold in the past 10 years in Germany. Food safety is a major concern as hepatitis E virus (HEV) RNA has been detected in ready-to-eat retail-level food products. ...