Eine Kamera ist auf eine reflektierende Glasscheibe gerichtet.
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Staphylococcus aureus
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Hope for a vaccination against Staphylococcus areus infections?

Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) ranks among the globally most important causes of infections in humans and is considered a dreaded hospital pathogen. Active and passive immunisation against multi

Alina Renz, Lina Widerspick und Andreas Dräger
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SARS-CoV-2: Bioinformaticians discover a new weakness of the virus

The search for effective antiviral agents against the new coronavirus is in full swing. Using a novel approach, Tübingen bioinformaticians have now discovered a weakness in the virus that could be

SARS-CoV-2
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New SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody enters clinical phase

Cologne, Marburg, Braunschweig and Ingelheim, Germany, 18 December 2020 – Cologne University Hospital (UKK), University of Marburg (UMR), the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) and Boehringer

Prof. Stephan Becker and Prof. Gerd Sutter
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DZIF prizes for translational infection research go to vaccine researchers

This year, the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) is honouring two researchers who have been engaged in virus research for many years and are currently actively working on a vaccine against

Masernimpfvirus als Vektor
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Measles virus as vector for a COVID-19 vaccine.

As part of the research activities within the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), scientists of the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut studied specific vaccine candidates against COVID-19. They are based

Corona-Impfstoffe im Test
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COVID-19: Participation in vaccine trials

Willingness to volunteer for COVID-19 vaccine trials is high. But what trials are underway and who can be contacted for further information? To answer these questions and to match interested

Dr. Silvia Portugal im Heidelberger Labor
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Malaria: Playing hide and seek in the dry season

Joint press release of the DZIF and the Heidelberg University Hospital

Malaria parasites of the species Plasmodium need the Anopheles mosquito to enter the human body. In turn, mosquito larvae need

Christoph Lange vor Röntgenbildern
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Milestone in the prevention of tuberculosis

Based on data involving more than 80,000 patients, an international research group has developed a programme that can predict the individual risk of tuberculosis. The results of this work were

Impfung
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First volunteers receive COVID-19 vaccine in phase I clinical trial

The vaccine trial is on track. Last Friday, on 9 October, the first test subject was injected with the vaccine MVA-SARS-2-S against COVID-19. A total of six volunteers received the vector vaccine to

Resistenzgene nachweisen
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Learning lessons from the coronavirus pandemic on containing other infections

Healthcare-associated infections have been growing continuously for years, resulting in hundreds of thousands of avoidable deaths each year. The main culprit is bacteria that have become resistant to