DZIF scientists at the Heinrich Pette Institute in Hamburg have shown that a cream containing Spirulina platensis, a cyanobacterium, effectively protects against oral herpes and other herpes virus
DZIF scientists from the Heinrich Pette Institute (HPI), Leibniz Institute for Experimental Virology have identified two sequences in the hepatitis B virus (HBV) genome that could be targeted for
Doctors at the Hannover Medical School (MHH) have succeeded in curing a patient suffering from a life-threatening diarrhoeal disease with an unusual treatment method: They transplanted a healthy
Patients infected with HIV have several benefits if they are treated with antiviral medication earlier than has been usual up to now: for a start, the severe AIDS-related complications occur less
Many viruses store their hereditary information in ribonucleic acid, RNA for short. Viral RNA is very similar to that of humans. However, the human immune system can differentiate between viral
There is a ray of hope in the fight against the dangerous MERScoronavirus (MERS-CoV): a single vaccine could potentially be sufficient to effectively fight all known MERS-CoV genetic lineages
Scientists from the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM) and the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI), both DZIF member establishments, have succeeded in identifying a novel bornavirus
Scientists from the Research Center Borstel, the German Center for Infection Research, the Oxford Biomedical Research Centre and the South African National Institute for Communicable Diseases have
In the EU project “EVIDENT”, scientists investigated around 180 patient samples from the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, to elucidate the origin of the epidemic in the individual countries and the
DZIF researchers at the LMU Munich have successfully tested their candidate vaccine against MERScoronavirus in a preclinical trial. Plans for a clinical trial, in which the virus will be tested in
