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Research on male animals prevents women from getting best drugs

More killer hail coming unless we curb global warming

Peruvian monkey avoids stomach trouble by adding mud to its diet

Birds use cigarette butts for chemical warfare against ticks

Cyberattack on UK parliament exploited weak email passwords

Risk for Death among Children with Pneumonia, Afghanistan

Acute Febrile Illness and Complications due to Murine Typhus, Texas, USA1,2

Scrub Typhus Outbreak in a Remote Primary School, Bhutan, 2014

Would you give one of your kidneys to a stranger?

Development of field-applicable tests for rapid and sensitive detection of Candidatus Phytoplasma oryzae.

Large-scale evaluation of a rapid diagnostic test for human cystic echinococcosis.

Preanalytic process linked to spuriously elevated HIV viral loads: improvement on an FDA-approved process.

The death of King Coal hints we are at a climate turning point

Living near noisy roads could make it harder to get pregnant

Answer to July 2017 Photo Quiz.

Closing the Brief Case: A Fishy Tale Prevents Digital Doom following Polly's Peck-the Importance of Pets in a Comprehensive Medical History.

The Brief Case: A Fishy Tale Prevents Digital Doom following Polly's Peck-the Importance of Pets in a Comprehensive Medical History.

Photo Quiz: A 25-Year-Old Male with Chronic Firm Mass of the Foot.

Say it with feeling: The complex world of emojis

Keep your stuff under lock and RFID

Development of a multiplex PCR assay for the detection and differentiation of Burkholderia pseudomallei, Burkholderia mallei, Burkholderia thailandensis, and Burkholderia cepacia complex

Investigating unlicensed retail drug vendors’ preparedness and knowledge about malaria: An exploratory study in rural Uganda

Taeniasis caused by Taenia saginata in Gianyar town and Taenia solium in Karangasem villages of Bali, Indonesia, 2011–2016: How to detect tapeworm carriers, anamnesis or microscopy?

High-touch surfaces: microbial neighbours at hand

Respiratory diphtheriae due to Corynebacterium ulcerans transmitted by a companion dog, Italy 2014

Antibiotic innovation for future public health needs

Early versus late diagnosis in community-acquired bacterial meningitis: A retrospective cohort study

First isolation of Conidiobolus sp. in a respiratory sample of a patient in Europe

Multinational retrospective case-control study of risk factors for the development of late invasive pulmonary aspergillosis following kidney transplantation

Longitudinal Trends of HIV Drug Resistance in a Large Canadian Cohort; 1996-2016

Emergence of drug resistant bacteria at the Hajj: A systematic review

HTLV-1 infection in Reunion

Severe intestinal obstruction due to Strongyloides stercoralis in a pregnant woman

Probiotic containing Lactobacillus casei, Lactobacillus bulgaricus, and Streptococcus thermophiles (ACTIMEL) for the prevention of Clostridium difficile associated diarrhoea in the elderly with proximal femur fractures

Living with climate change: Convincing the sceptics

Parallel Evaluation of the MALDI Sepsityper and Verigene BC-GN Assays for Rapid Identification of Gram-Negative Bacilli from Positive Blood Cultures.

Discovery of specific antigens that can predict microfilarial intensity in Loa loa infection.

Excellent diagnostic characteristics for ultra-fast gene profiling of DEFA1-IL1B-LTF in the detection of prosthetic joint infections.

Rapid differentiation of Haemophilus influenzae and Haemophilus haemolyticus using MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry with ClinProTools mass spectra analysis.

Rapid Filter-Based Detection and Culture of Burkholderia pseudomallei From Small Volumes of Urine.

Online identification of fungi using MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry: validation of a new web application.

Can heightened empathy be a bad thing?

Counter-intuitive plasma vitamin D and zinc status in HIV-1-infected adults with persistent low-level viraemia after treatment initiation: a pilot case–control study

Social network clustering and the spread of HIV/AIDS among persons who inject drugs in two cities in the Philippines.

High need to switch cART or co-medication with the initiation of DAAs in elderly HIV/HCV co-infected patients.

Progressive Brain Atrophy Despite Persistent Viral Suppression in HIV Over Age 60.

HIV/HBV co-infection is a significant risk factor for liver fibrosis in Tanzanian HIV-infected adults.

Cell-free DNA-induced alteration of autophagy response and TLR9-signaling: their relation to amelioration of DSS-colitis

Microscopic and molecular identification of hemotropic mycoplasmas in South American coatis (Nasua nasua)

In vitro antiviral effects of Peganum harmala seed extract and its total alkaloids against Influenza virus