Infection with the pathogenic yeast fungus Candida auris (C. auris) can wreak havoc on the health of hospital patients and ...

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

Periodontitis is widespread and can have serious consequences for overall health. Researchers at Fraunhofer have identified a ...

Researchers at the University of Glasgow have developed a new diagnostic platform for identifying microbial infections in as ...

When our body is attacked by a pathogen, the pathogen has to find ways to evade our immune system and invade our cells to cause infection and illness. Reporting in Cell, researchers have now ...

What antibiotic should I use to treat this patient’s Klebsiella pneumoniae? It’s resistant to carbapenems, and there’s a ...

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 ...

Food poisoning is never a fun experience. Sometimes, if you’re lucky, you’ll bite into something bad and realize soon enough ...

“… [scientific] responsibility has to go beyond vocation to encompass a deeper ethical commitment based on the empathic experience of interdependence and shared ...

For the first time in seven years, the World Health Organization has updated its list of the most dangerous, antimicrobial resistant pathogens. The revised list includes 24 pathogens from 15 different ...

A new analysis method can detect pathogens in blood samples faster and more accurately than blood cultures, which are the current state of the art for infection diagnosis. The new method, called ...