Purdue University researchers have developed a device for more conveniently detecting pathogens in health care settings, on ...

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, pathogen DNA has uncovered a pivotal disease "turning point" that happened 6,500 ...

For years scientists have puzzled over why the intracellular pathogen Salmonella is able to survive — and thrive — in human and animal tissues, even within otherwise hostile cells that are part of the ...

“Infectious diseases don’t respect borders,” says Khoa Thai, a clinical microbiologist at the Star-shl medical diagnostics laboratory in the Netherlands. To limit their spread, we need a globally ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Pathogen reduction lowers the risk of transmitting dangerous pathogens to other patients. Examples of pathogen ...

A new study offers a solution to infections with the pathogenic fungus Candida auris by taking a new precision diagnostic ...

During infection, reversible switch permits flexible formation of memory T cells, long-lived blood cells that can remember pathogen encounters and respond upon reinfection. Unexpected findings have ...

Antimicrobial resistance and ecological disruption caused by broad-spectrum disinfectants have created an urgent need for ...

Pathogens can create sticky situations. When microbes invade the body to cause an infection, often one of their first lines ...