Countermeasure against Emerging Infections (H1N1 and Others).

Climate changes and emerging fungal infections

Background: Candida auris is a globally emerging yeast pathogen that has shown not only resistance to most anti-fungal drugs but also thermo-tolerance to temperatures higher than the mammalian’s body temperature. Although it has been only a decade since the fungus was identified, its spread of infections has been rapid and quasi-epidemics have been reported. Co-occurrences of the fungus infecti...

Emerging Strategies in Radiation Countermeasure Research

The colossal damages inflicted to the humanity by the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atom bombings during Second World War (1945) prompted radiation countermeasure research world over. The recent global and regional geopolitical scenario embroiled with terrorism has escalated the nuclear threat perception among all concerned. Radiation exposure is a natural event occurring from the sun and radioactive ...

Low-Cost Countermeasure against RPA

On smart-cards, Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems (ECC) can be vulnerable to Side Channel Attacks such as the Re ned Power Analysis (RPA). This attack takes advantage of the apparition of special points of the form (0, y). In this paper, we propose a new countermeasure based on co-Z formulæ and an extension of the curve isomorphism countermeasure. It permits to transform the base point P = (x, y) in...

Emerging and re-emerging infections

The microbial world is complex, dynamic and constantly evolving. Infectious agents reproduce rapidly, mutate frequently, cross the species barrier between animal hosts and humans, and adapt with relative ease to their new environments. Because of these traits, infectious agents are able to alter their epidemiology, their virulence, and their susceptibility to anti-infective drugs. When disease ...

[Countermeasure against chemical disaster and terrorism].