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Pseudomonas aeruginosa
© CDC/James Archer

Could green tea hold the key to reducing antibiotic resistance?

Since the early ages green tea has been known for its numerous health benefits. A recent study goes further and shows that it also could help to fight antibiotic resistant bacteria. DZIF scientists at

Spitzmaus
© Ulrike Rosenfeld

Hepatitis B: Unusual virus discovered in shrews

The discovery of an unusual hepatitis B virus from shrews offers new opportunities of better understanding the chronic progression of the disease. International research teams were able to demonstrate

Dirk Busch and his study team
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Successful T cell engineering with gene scissors

The idea of genetically modifying a patient’s own immune cells and deploying them against infections and tumors has been around since the 1980s. But to this day modified T cells are still not as

Staphylococcus aureus (magenta-colored)
© NIAID

Natural antibiotic’s multi-level attack strategy helps prevent resistance

The natural antibiotic Lugdunin, discovered three years ago by Tübingen DZIF researchers, attacks pathogenic bacteria in several different ways simultaneously and also interacts with the defense

Hepatitis B virions (orange coloured)
© CDC/Dr. Erskine Palmer

Checkmate for hepatitis B viruses in the liver

Researchers have for the first time succeeded in conquering a chronic infection with the hepatitis B virus in a mouse model. The team showed in its publication, that T-cell therapy can provide a

H1N1 influenca virus particle
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Known medicines: New role in combating infections?

Looking for an effective treatment of serious influenza infections, researchers of the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut have used bioinformatics to screen licensed medicines for their potential efficacy against

Laboratory-synthesized lugdunin
© Universität Tübingen/Sebastian N. Wirtz

Antibiotic produced by the microbiome kills bacteria by disturbing energy metabolism

A research team from the Universities of Tübingen and Göttingen as well as from the German Center for Infection Research has investigated the mode of action of a new class of antibiotics that is

Helicobacter pylori
© HZI/ M. Rohde

Helicobacter pylori: Signs of selection in the stomach

Helicobacter pylori, a globally distributed gastric bacterium, is genetically highly adaptable. The DZIF team of Professor Sebastian Suerbaum at LMU has now characterized its population structure in

Aedes albopictus
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Early Dengue virus infection could “defuse” Zika virus

The Zika virus outbreak in Latin America has affected over 60 million people up to now. The infection can have potentially fatal consequences for pregnant women and their unborn children: many

Mucispirillum
© B. Stecher

Gut Microbe helps thwart Salmonella

Salmonella infections can have serious consequences for certain high-risk groups, such as young children, the elderly and individuals whose immune systems are functionally compromised. Most people