Infectious Disease Control Articles & Analysis
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Infectious diseases seriously threaten human health, and various infectious diseases may cause millions of severe cases and even death every year. Vaccination has been one of the most effective public health interventions in history, preventing millions of deaths worldwide. However, the success of vaccines relies not only on the antigens they carry but also on additional components known as ...
Longlong Si's research group from the Institute of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, published a research titled "Generation of a live attenuated influenza A vaccine by proteolysis targeting" in Nature Biotechnology. Using influenza virus as a model virus, the team established the technology of protein degradation targeting virus as an ...
From the eradication of smallpox through to the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccines have been a cornerstone in the fight against infectious diseases in humans and livestock since the 18th century. Although vaccines against COVID-19 are unlikely to eradicate the disease in the way that the smallpox vaccine did, they have proved very effective in preventing death and hospitalisation, ...
Covid-19 has had a profound effect on people, business, and social norms. Employees and residents of long term care centers have been some of greatly impacted by the challenges of this pandemic. ...
The CDC chose Genomadix Bioscience, an Ottawa-based biotechnology company, to assist with a Legionnaires’ outbreak in Chesterfield, VA. The Virginia Department of Health (VDH) identified an increase in Legionnaires’ disease cases in Chesterfield County and requested assistance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). During the investigation, the CDC Pneumonia ...
At the peak of the worldwide SARS epidemic, apprehension arose out of partially disclosed, if not concealed, information on the current status has driven many foreign-based companies to withdraw their business in Taiwan or move their bases elsewhere. Normal trading, investment and travel were suspended or came to a standstill. This paper traces the spread of SARS in Taiwan and the corresponding ...
One of the major advances serving to define the beginning of the era of modern medicine was the development of penicillin in the early 1940s as the first widely used antibiotic effective against microorganisms (reviewed in reference 111). In what has become an all-too-common trend, antibiotic-resistant isolates emerged soon after the large-scale use of penicillin to treat bacterial infections ...
One of the major advances serving to define the beginning of the era of modern medicine was the development of penicillin in the early 1940s as the first widely used antibiotic effective against microorganisms (reviewed in reference 111). In what has become an all-too-common trend, antibiotic-resistant isolates emerged soon after the large-scale use of penicillin to treat bacterial infections ...