JAPANESE Encephalitis is an incurable viral infection of the brain, spread by mosquito bites from birds and pigs to humans. It is most common in rural areas of south-east Asia and the western Pacific, and often produces no symptoms or…
NOTABLE for having the smallest genome of any known organism, Mycoplasma genitalium is a small bacterium which, like other Mycoplasma species, has no cell wall. Residing in the human urogenital tract, it causes urethritis in males and females as well…
Ureaplasma are very small free-living bacteria that, like the mycoplasmas, have no cell walls. Named for its metabolic utilisation of urea, it possesses a small simple genome. Ureaplasma parvum is the genus found in the human urogenital tract. Its presence has been associated with several conditions including urethritis, pelvic inflammatory disease, congenital pneumonia and neonatal meningitis. ViroStat introduces a set of new monoclonal antibodies to U parvum that have applications in Elisa and IFA.