Microbe Magazine

Despite the short route from the olfactory mucosa, along the olfactory nerve, into the brain's olfactory bulb, viral infections of the brain are rare. Now Yale University researchers explain this longstanding mystery. The brain contains a defense system that prevents at least two unrelated v... More...

Roughly 26 million Americans, 8.2% of the population, have asthma, including 9.5% of children, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Earlier research had suggested reduced incidence in children previously infected with Salmonella. Now investig... More...

Effective killing of Bacillus anthracis spores is of paramount importance to antibioterrorism, food safety, environmental protection, and the medical device industry. Heretofore, the conventional wisdom has held that spores die mostly when heating causes chemical or... More...

Nearly 20% of South Africans lack sustainable access to water. Recently, South Africa has been financing domestic rainwater harvesting tanks in informal low-income settlements and rural areas in five of that nation's nine provinces. But pathogens inhabit such harvested rainwater, potentially... More...

Infections caused by carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae are resistant to nearly all available antibiotics, and have been associated with increased mortality. But George Daikos of the University of Athens et al. found, in an observational study of 205 pati... More...

Overuse of antibiotics has been boosting resistance. Now John Baddley of the University of Alabama, Birmingham, et al. show that despite campaigns to reduce inappropriate use, emergency departments have seen very little reduction in that use. “While emergency department antibiotic use for acute r... More...