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Tag Archives: vaccine
Using yeast to produce a better polio vaccine
On 14-15 June, the Early Careers Microbiologists’ Forum Conference will be held at the University of Birmingham. The Conference will give Early Career Microbiologists the opportunity to present their research, network and attend professional development sessions. Lee Sherry provides some … Continue reading
Posted in Clinical and Medical Microbiology, Events, Mycology, Virology
Tagged early-career researchers, ECM Forum, Poliomyelitis, vaccine
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What is Herd Immunity?
When you think of a herd, you probably think of cows, wildebeest or buffalo. In the animal world, there is safety in numbers – more pairs of eyes to look out for predators, for example. As humans, we don’t generally have … Continue reading
Posted in Clinical and Medical Microbiology, Epidemiology, Video
Tagged immunity, vaccine
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Microbe Talk: September 2015
In this month’s podcast: Ebola vaccines for chimpanzees and engineering the built environment to prevent the spread of infections. First up, Anand visited the labs of the Healthy Infrastructure Research Group at UCL. Dr Lena Ciric and her team told … Continue reading
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Tagged antimicrobial surfaces, apes, black mould, chimapnzees, Ebola, infrastructure, vaccine
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Towards a universal coronavirus vaccine: science fact or science-fiction?
New research being presented today at the Annual Conference describes how the blood serum of people who have recovered from the SARS (serious acute respiratory syndrome) coronavirus can neutralise the MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome) coronavirus, which was recently discovered … Continue reading
Posted in Clinical and Medical Microbiology
Tagged antibodies, cold virus, MERS, SARS, vaccine
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Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever: A Phantom Menace
Viral haemorrhagic fevers are a poorly understood group of diseases, but they have entered the public consciousness in unprecedented fashion due to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The viruses that cause these diseases are transmitted by a range of vectors that … Continue reading
Posted in Emerging Diseases, Epidemiology, Virology
Tagged Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever, Haemorrhagic Fever, Vaccination, vaccine
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A bump in the road for a broad-spectrum flu vaccine?
An estimated three to five million cases of severe flu infection are reported each year. This isn’t the same as the “I can’t come to work today, I’ve got ‘flu’…” type of illness (often caused by the common cold), but … Continue reading
Posted in Clinical and Medical Microbiology
Tagged flu, flu vaccine, Haemagglutinin, influenza, pandemic, vaccine
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E. ictaluri vs the catfish immune system: water warfare
Catfish aquaculture is big business in the US. Big business. Total sales of these large, freshwater fish were worth over $340 million in 2012, with channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) accounting for more than 80% of US aquaculture business. Controlling disease-causing … Continue reading
