All UMC Utrecht articles
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NewsStudy shows targeted school closures can improve pandemic response
New research shows that school closures during a pandemic outbreak are most effective when they are carefully targeted. The study demonstrates that the right strategy depends on which age groups are driving transmission at different stages of an outbreak.
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NewsAutoantibodies implicated as drivers of long COVID in new study
A new study shows that antibodies from Long COVID patients can induce persistent pain-like symptoms in mice. This provides evidence for a potential causal role of autoantibodies in Long Covid.
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News4 million euros for study with personalized phage therapy
UMC Utrecht has received a grant of 4 million euros for the first clinical study in the Netherlands involving a customized therapy with bacteriophages for patients with recurrent urinary tract infections.
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NewsA new technology to isolate immunostimulatory members of the human gut microbiota
Scientists have developed a new technology to isolate a specific subset of gut bacteria that are recognized by IgA antibodies. These ‘IgA-coated’ bacteria are associated with an array of diseases and this proposed new technology has the potential to uncover the mechanisms behind these correlations.
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NewsResearchers identify antibodies against Klebsiella pneumoniae
Researchers have identified 29 novel antibodies against the bacterium Klebsiella pneumoniae, an important cause of drug-resistant infections.
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NewsResearchers identify critical immune factor for host defense against MRSA
Researchers identify a critical immune factor for host defense against MRSA, offering a potential explanation for failures of previous vaccine strategies and a proposal for a new direction for tackling this bacterium.
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NewsFlu can trigger a heart attack, Dutch study suggests
Individuals who are diagnosed with flu are six times more likely to have a heart attack in the week after they test positive for the virus than they are in the year before or afterwards, a Dutch study being presented at this year’s ECCMID 2023 has found.