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Recognising blood poisoning more easily
Every year, more than 150,000 people in Germany become afflicted by Sepsis , also called blood poisoning in the vernacular. The disease is fatal for almost one in three patients. Scientists of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig recently…
Emmanuelle Charpentier receives Ernst Jung Award for Medicine
This year’s Ernst Jung Award, worth 300,000 Euro, goes to Prof Emmanuelle Charpentier from the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig. She receives the prize for harnessing an ancient immune defense in bacteria – CRISPR-Cas9 – into a genome…
Living within the bones
Osteomyelitis is an infection of the bone that is generally associated with high levels of bone marrow inflammation and bone destruction. Scientists of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig, Germany, reported how the pathogen Staphylococcus…
The HZI and the University of Würzburg get new institute for infection research off the ground
The Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig and the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) are going to jointly establish a new Helmholtz institute headquartered in Würzburg. This has been decided in a resolution of the Senate of the…
Epidemiologic study reveals worldwide decreases in chronic HBV infection
Together with HIV, tuberculosis and malaria, viral hepatitis is among the most frequent infections worldwide. Hepatitis B is highly infective, 50 to 100 times more than HIV. Up to now, epidemiologic information on time trends and annual changes of chronic HBV prevalence…
EU supports research into the diagnostics and therapy of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in biofilms
The European Research Council (ERC) awarded Dr Alexander Titz, who is the head of the "Chemical Biology of Carbohydrates" junior research group of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) and of the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), an ERC Starting…
Salmonellae under the magnifying glass
Bacteria of the Salmonella genus can gain entry to the human body through spoiled or contaminated foods and then cause severe diarrhoeal diseases. But salmonellae can be useful as well: They can colonise tumours to the effect that these can be detected and tackled by…
Double strike against bacteria and viruses
A new class of substances is effective against both the AIDS pathogen, HIV, and antibiotics-resistant MRSA bacteria. These two pathogens often occur together. Scientists hope that it may be possible to control them with a single drug in the future. Scientists of the…
Rapid-Action Defence Used By Bacteria
When bacteria enter the body of a human or animal, they are recognised as foreign matter by the immune system. The immune cells, in turn, try to eliminate these foreign bodies. Scientists of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig and their…
Body Temperature Makes Bacteria Aggressive
Bacteria of the Yersinia genus elicit intestinal wall inflammation and serious diarrhoeal disease as well as other afflictions in humans. This genus includes the plague pathogen. Scientists from the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) and their colleagues from…
