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MOSTLY MICROBES AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Welcome to Mostly Microbes and Infectious Diseases. David Ojcius posts newspaper and journal articles in the broad field of microbiology.
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Mass vaccination creates healthy oasis in Brazilian city
#Brazil #COVID19 #COVIDVaccine #coronavirus #SARSCoV2 Serrana, a city in southeastern Brazilian state of Sao Paulo, has seen a 95% drop...
David Ojcius
May 31, 20211 min read
Can I Ask Co-Workers if They’ve Had the Covid Vaccine?
#COVIDVaccine #COVID19 #coronavirus #vaccines #publichealth #ethics The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on why asking about vaccine status...
David Ojcius
May 31, 20212 min read
Tooth Loss May Affect Ability to Carry Out Everyday Tasks
#oralhealth #teeth #tooth #dental #dentistry #dentist Summary: Older adults with more natural teeth are better able to carry out simple...
David Ojcius
May 31, 20212 min read
David Ojcius on Lifelong Learning as a Researcher
#lifelonglearning #education #research What do you love most about being a university professor? The profession I’m in is actually two in...
David Ojcius
May 31, 20211 min read
Antibiotics Can Treat Human Diseases Like Cancer – Not Just Bacterial Infections
#antibiotics #ribosomes #molecularbiology #cancer According to researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago, the antibiotics used to...
David Ojcius
May 30, 20212 min read
Vietnam, facing a surge and a new coronavirus variant, tightens restrictions in its largest city
#Vietnam #COVID19 #coronavirus Vietnam, which is coping with its worst outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, announced new restrictions...
David Ojcius
May 30, 20212 min read
Babesiosis, a tick-borne infection that attacks red blood cells, appears to be a growing problem
#babesiosis #microbiology #infectiousdisease Babesiosis is most often caused by the tiny parasites Babesia microti and transmitted to...
David Ojcius
May 30, 20211 min read
Vietnam says it has detected a more contagious hybrid of variants first seen in India and Britain
#Vietnam #COVID19 #coronavirus #SARSCoV2 Vietnam has discovered a new variant of the coronavirus that the country’s health minister said...
David Ojcius
May 29, 20212 min read
Researchers discover drug that blocks multiple SARS-CoV-2 variants in mice
#COVID19 #coronavirus #SARSCoV2 #immunology #innateimmunity The drug diABZI—which activates the body's innate immune response—was highly...
David Ojcius
May 29, 20212 min read
Salivary biomarkers for the diagnosis and monitoring of neurological diseases
#saliva #neurology #dementia #Alzheimers #diagnosis Current research efforts on neurological diseases are focused on identifying novel...
David Ojcius
May 29, 20211 min read
The CRISPR-associated Cas4 protein from Leptospira interrogans
#CRISPR #DNAse #nuclease #Leptospira The Cas4 protein is one of the core CRISPR-associated (Cas) proteins implicated in the adaptation...
David Ojcius
May 29, 20211 min read
Fungal-mediated microbial electrochemical system: applications and challenges
#biofuel #bioelectricity #wastewater #microbiology Microbial fuel cell (MFC) that generates bioelectricity from biodegradable waste...
David Ojcius
May 29, 20211 min read
Researchers create new CRISPR tools to help contain mosquito disease transmission
#CRISPR #mosquitoes #WestNile Since the onset of the CRISPR genetic editing revolution, scientists have been working to leverage the...
David Ojcius
May 29, 20211 min read
Vietnam detects highly contagious new coronavirus variant as infections surge
#COVID19 #coronavirus #Vietnam Vietnam’s Health Ministry announced Saturday that it had detected a highly transmissible new variant of...
David Ojcius
May 29, 20211 min read
Immunoinformatics for predicting potential B-cell and T-cell epitopes for Covid vaccines
#COVID19 #COVIDvaccine #coronavirus #vaccines #SARSCoV2 #immunology Background The increase in global mortality rates from SARS-COV2...
David Ojcius
May 28, 20211 min read
Neither B cell nor T cell: innate lymphoid cells - by Jean Kanellopoulos and David Ojcius
#immunology #innateimmunity #ILC This special issue contains four review articles that analyze the development and biology of innate...
David Ojcius
May 28, 20211 min read
The unseen covid-19 risk for unvaccinated people
#COVID19 #coronavirus #vaccines #COVIDvaccine As more people in the US receive vaccines, covid-19 cases are occurring mostly in the...
David Ojcius
May 28, 20211 min read
Yes, we’ll probably need coronavirus booster shots. But which one?
#coronavirus #COVID19 #COVIDvaccine #vaccine #vaccines Scientists expand efforts to determine when COVID19 vaccine booster shots will be...
David Ojcius
May 28, 20211 min read
Morris Chapel, University of the Pacific
#California #religion #spirituality #education Morris Chapel in the University of the Pacific campus in Stockton, California
David Ojcius
May 27, 20211 min read
Cause or effect? The spatial organization of pathogens and the gut microbiota in disease
#microbiota #microbiome #infectiousdisease #microbiology #inflammation The human gut hosts a dense and diverse microbial community,...
David Ojcius
May 27, 20211 min read
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