October 2014

  In the past, influenza A virus has been found in fruit bats from Guatemala, Central America. A recent publication in PloS Pathogens, has found similar viruses in bat species from South America. When the authors examined rectal swabs from bats sampled in the …

Radioimmunotherapy treatment options for cancer patients are not without their own difficulties such as damage to surrounding non- cancerous cells and treatment side effects. Now radionuclides attached to antibodies have the potential to target radiation specifically to cancer cells, thereby reducing unwanted damage to …

As there are certain pathogens, such as HIV, whose risk to safety prevents the development of live or attenuated vaccines, the need for the development of subunit vaccines becomes more critical. The subunit vaccines for human papillomavirus (HPV) provide near complete protection against HPV …

An article in this week’s British Journal of Medicine discussed a longitudinal study conducted over 20 years, that looked at antibiotic treatment failure in a primary care setting. Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is a major public health problem. To better understand this in a …