A few days ago, Prof Dr Ute Mackenstedt from the University of Hohenheim, an expert in the research of ticks, together with Dr Gerhard Dobler from the reference laboratory for tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) and Dr Rainer Oehme from the Baden-Württemberg…
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The ongoing Zika virus epidemic has been and is still today an important topic in the Americas. There is, however, another serious health issue for pregnant women and their unborn babies which is far less frequently addressed: syphilis. According to…
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Malaria is a fever disease caused by plasmodia, unicellular parasites. There exist five species which are pathogenic for humans and induce different forms of th…
Every once in a while, physicians face a patient with rather unspecific symptoms of exhaustion, sore muscles and joints, bad headache and sometimes even neu…
A fictional story … Diffuse complaints … Since weeks Lisa M. (36) feels exhausted, has aching legs and arms and has developed a fever. Initially, o…
Diagnosis of acute Lyme neuroborreliosis Since 2005, the chemotactic cytokine (chemokine) CXCL13 has been considered a potential biomarker for acute Lyme neu…