They come from a scientific paper published by the Journal of Infectious Diseases in November 2009.

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The research has been published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.

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The list, which includes five bacteria and one fungus, is described in the current issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, a medical journal, and will also be unveiled as part of a press conference today.

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Writing in The Lancet Infectious Diseases medical journal, Prof Laura Piddock of the school of immunity and infection at the University of Birmingham warned there were global implications from the misuse of antibiotics, and drug companies' failures to develop new ones.

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The hot zone for exposure is generally two seats beside, in front of and behind you, according to a study in July in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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"Plasmodium is not a simple organism like a bacterium or virus, " says Dr Mohammed Shahabuddin, at the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a co-author on the study published in the journal Science.

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