News 2024
03.06.2024
Congratulations! Borstel Scientist Receives DGHM Advancement Award 2024
Prof. Dr. Caroline Barisch has been honoured for her scientific work investigating and analysing the virulence strategies employed by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis to create optimal conditions for its intracellular replication.
14.10.2024
LCI Summer School on "Molecular Infectious Diseases Epidemiology"
Doctoral students from the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM), the Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Lung Center (FZB) and the Leibniz Institute of Virology (LIV) met for a three-day meeting on "Molecular Infectious Diseases Epidemiology". The three institutes organized the summer school as part of the Leibniz Center Infection (LCI) Graduate School as a joint event with the Hamburg Leibniz ScienceCampus "Integrative Analysis of Pathogen-induced Compartments" (InterACt). The summer school offered the doctoral students plenty of time for dialogue and networking.
15.05.2024
Prevention of tuberculosis: When should contact persons receive preventive treatment?
In a large-scale systematic review, researchers from an international consortium examined more than 25,000 publications from the last 20 years. They examined under which circumstances contact persons of tuberculosis (TB) sufferers benefit from receiving preventive antibiotic therapy so that they do not fall ill themselves. The results showed that the effective strategy depends on the TB incidence of the country: in low-incidence countries, it makes sense to give preventive treatment only to contact persons who have been tested with a skin test or blood test indicating contact with tuberculosis bacteria. In high-incidence countries, all close contacts of people with tuberculosis should receive preventive treatment if no tests are available.
30.04.2024
Together against infections: Cooperation agreed with renowned Indian research institute
In April, a total of 15 researchers from the Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Lung Center and the Julius-Maximilians-Universität in Würzburg traveled to Indore (India) to share their latest research findings in the field of bacterial infectious diseases and to intensify their existing collaboration during a three-day workshop.
27.03.2024
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis
Antibiotic resistance is one of the challenges facing mankind in the 21st century. This includes antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis, a topic for which the Research Center Borstel has particular expertise. Just in time for World Tuberculosis Day 2024, the journal Nature Reviews Disease Primers published a comprehensive overview of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. In this review, international experts from various medical disciplines shed light on the relevant topics of this complex disease, including epidemiology, transmission, prevention, diagnosis and treatment.