Published research identifies the significance of early intervention in decreasing a young person’s likelihood of developing hoarding disorder later in life.

Scientists have long been trying to tease apart hepatitis A virus, to understand its inner workings and how it functions in the human body. Infectious disease researchers at the UNC School of Medicine have discovered that a little-known protein, PDGFA-associated protein 1 (PDAP1), is used as a pawn by hepatitis A virus to replicate and infect cells in the liver.

Two studies illustrate the need for better monitoring to protect the effectiveness of important antibiotics: pooled data from 17 European Union and European Economic Area (EU/EEA) countries and data from Romania show increasing spread of two types of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, Escherichia coli sequence type (ST)131 producing various carbapenemases and New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase-1 (NDM-1)-producing Providencia stuartii.