Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Gateway

Different social contact patterns between school holidays and term time and between weekdays and weekends result in a 20% decrease of secondary infections during holiday periods, suggesting that closing schools could reduce infection spread during a pandemic.

The majority of Kenyan people live in low risk areas for malaria according to mathematical modeling of Plasmodium falciparum distribution; monitoring the epidemiology of this condition may help tailor effective interventions.

A diagnostic signature for sepsis caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei infection was identified from transcriptional profiling of the blood of septicemia patients.

Inflammatory bowel diseases remain a challenge despite emerging large-scale genetic data and indications of bacterial influence whose application could lead to more long-term treatments.

Lower prevalence of detectable xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus (XMRV) in biopsies from German prostate cancer patients related to geographically restricted XMRV infections and reinforces the importance of local etiological agents.