Whooping cough
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2024.09.18
Whooping cough is a highly contagious respiratory disease that can be severe or even fatal for vulnerable individuals, such as unvaccinated infants. People...
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2022.11.30
Calmodulin is a protein found in all living organisms, or at least those whose cells have a nucleus. "Calmodulin" literally means "calcium-modulated protein...
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2022.04.28
How do we track the dynamics of a disease, particularly in terms of its response to vaccines? A study published in Science Translational Medicine provides...
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2021.12.06
In 2019, the WHO positioned chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) third in the global ranking of causes of death. However, some mechanisms of this...
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2021.03.09
Bordetella pertussis is the agent responsible for whooping cough, a disease that is currently on the rise. In particular, the bacterium produces the CyaA toxin...
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2020.04.24
Approximately four months after the initial description of cases of atypical pneumonia in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, COVID-19 had become a major pandemic...
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2020.04.30
An international effort including researchers from University of California San Francisco (UCSF), Gladstone Institutes, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai...
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2020.02.27
All travelers can come into contact with health risks that are completely different from those they generally encounter on a daily basis. So it is vital to...
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2020.02.26
During the weekend of February 22-23, 2020, the epidemic situation evolved worldwide with the intensification of outbreaks in South Korea, Japan and Singapore...
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2019.09.06
Scientists from the Institut Pasteur are investigating CyaA, one of the major toxins of Bordetella pertussis. This bacterium is responsible for whooping cough...