Microbe Magazine

In relation to the article by Marcia Stone on prions (Microbe, December 2012, p. 551), it is not correct that Baruch Blumberg worked on kuru. The connection between D. Carleton Gajdusek and Baruch S. Blumberg is that they shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1976 “for their discov... More...

The term holobiont was first introduced by Mindell (Biosystems 27:53–62, 1992) to describe a host and its primary symbiont; the definition was subsequently expanded to the host plus all of its symbiotic microorganisms, including viruses (Rohwer et al., Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 243:1–10... More...

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) afflict an estimated 13 million American women annually. Postmenopausal women are especially vulnerable. The high incidence of UTIs in post-menopausal women has long been thought related to the menopausal fall in estrogen levels. However, in women, “estrogen therap... More...

Various patient populations are vulnerable to ultrafine particles carrying pathogenic bacteria, viruses, and allergens. But a new device called a soft X-ray electrostatic precipitator protected immunocompromised mice from pathogenic bacteria, viruses, ultrafine particles, and allergens. “Small pa... More...

Skin and soft tissue infections are the second most common bacterial infections encountered in clinical practice, and represent the most common infection presentation—more than 3%, in emergency departments. Treatment has been complicated by the skyrocketing incidence of antibiotic resistance. Now... More...

Aging has been a bane of human existence since, well, we don't really know, but at least since the dawn of the species, and perhaps since that of the genus Homo, but medical researchers are now fighting fate and entropy on a multiplicity of fronts. In a new review in Molecular and ... More...