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Emerging Diseases
Emerging Diseases – A challenge for research, medicine and society © HZI/Verena Meier Researcher in the S3 laboratory at the HZI To eradicate infectious diseases forever: This vision is likely to remain wishful thinking. Even if medicine were able to find a…
Malaria
Malaria – tiny bite, major effect © Adobe Stock/pongmoji Along with tuberculosis and AIDS, malaria is one of the “big three”, the three infectious diseases that are globally responsible for most deaths. According to World Health Organization estimates, some…
Klebsiella
Klebsiella © NIAID (Public Domain) "The Return of Klebsiella" read the headline of "Die Zeit" on 8 March 2012 in an article discussing the return of this bacterium at the premature infant and neonate ward of Klinikum Mitte in Bremen, Germany. This…
Influenza
Influenza - a yearly infection © HZI/Britta Meyer Influenza virus It is quite common, but not very pleasant: The “flu”, an infection with influenza virus. It is transmitted via droplet infection between individuals. If you catch it, you are agonized with a…
Salmonellae
Salmonellae © HZI/Siegfried Weiß Salmonellae in a tumour Salmonellae often make the headlines in summer when they spoil a mayonnaise, a milk-based ice cream or whipped egg whites. Not rarely, infections are caused by careless, unhygienic handling of poultry…
Epidemiology
Epidemiology © Shutterstock/lakshmiprasada S You would never guess from the name that epidemiologists do not just study major disease outbreaks commonly known as “epidemics.“ Today, Epidemiology is much more an in-depth study of public health. You would…
Coronaviruses
Coronaviruses © CDC/Fred Murphy, Sylvia Whitfield (Public Domain) Coronaviruses The coronaviruses are a family of viruses that includes a series of very different pathogens. These viruses usually infect mammals, rodents, and birds, but only few…
HZI-Alumni
HZI-Alumni The Alumni of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI Alumni) in Braunschweig are a social and career network for former employees as well as for friends and sponsors of the HZI and the former German Research centre for Biotechnology…
About HIOH
© HIOH / UNA[H]RT DESIGN One Health concept. The Helmholtz Institute for One Health (HIOH) in Greifswald is a new institute of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI). The institute is closely interlinked with its local founding partners: the…
About BRICS
Systems biology connects life sciences to mathematics and computer science. Experiments in the laboratory produce data, which are then combined with data from literature to obtain and further develop computer models. The goal is the prediction of biological…
