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While many bacteria exist as aggressive pathogens, causing diseases ranging from tuberculosis and cholera, to plague, diphtheria and toxic shock syndrome, others play a less malevolent role and some are critical for human health.

The advent of combination antiretroviral therapy in 1996, and patients success using the drugs in managing HIV, led to diminished interest in research towards a cure for a number of years.

Using nanoscale materials, researchers at the University of Georgia have developed a single-step method to rapidly and accurately detect viruses, bacteria and chemical contaminants.