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  • Our monthly round up of infectious diseases news, which this month includes the origin and spread of an amphibian assassin, turning the tide against HIV, and chicken pox-infected lollipops.

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  • Our monthly round up of infectious diseases news, which this month includes a vaccine against trachoma, a European filovirus and a potential infectious agent for colon cancer.

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  • Our monthly round-up of infectious diseases news, which this month includes the Lasker Award for the discovery of artemisinin, the discovery of a new tick-borne disease and the development of a new tuberculosis vaccine.

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  • Our monthly round up of infectious diseases news, which this month includes funding for new antimalarial approaches, an infectious trigger for narcolepsy and mapping the spread of cholera.

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  • Our monthly round-up of infectious diseases news, which this month includes bacteria on the beach, good news about the HPV vaccine, copper in intensive care units and a scarlet fever outbreak in Hong Kong.

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  • Our monthly round up of infectious diseases news, which this month includes the use of Twitter to track public health, a call to ban tuberculosis blood tests, genetically modified organisms to fight HIV, and the outbreak ofEscherichia coliin Germany.

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  • Our monthly round up of infectious diseases news, which this month includes the finding of a canine homologue of hepatitis C virus, new insights into how influenza exacerbates asthma, and an outbreak of enterohaemorrhagicEscherichia coli.

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  • Our monthly round up of infectious diseases news, which this month includes leprosy from armadillos,NDM1-positive bacteria in Delhi water sources and a mixed month for malaria research.

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  • Our monthly round up of infectious diseases news, which this month includes a rise in HIV infections in the United Kingdom, faster diagnoses and cures for tuberculosis, papillomavirus in men and a new deadly bunyavirus.

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  • Our monthly round up of infectious diseases news, which this month includes new influenza vaccines and potential antimalarials, hopeful news about HIV in Zimbabwe, and drug delivery using bacteria.

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  • Our monthly round up of infectious diseases news, which this month includes immunity to influenza, a new vaccine against TB and a potential new treatment for HIV.

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  • Our monthly round up of infectious diseases news, which this month includes tuberculosis thriving in 'Victorian-like' conditions in London, further doubt about the link between XMRV and chronic fatigue syndrome, and the finding thatEchinaceapreparations do nothing for the duration of the common cold.

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