First identified in Japan in 2009, the fungus has reportedly reached at least 60 countries and dozens of US states.

A systematic review of more than 200 studies published in BMC Infectious Diseases on human viruses over more than a century ...

Long before modern medicine named and cataloged human herpesviruses, at least one of them was already quietly embedding ...

Adult bacterial meningitis carries high mortality and neurological complications, especially from Listeria and Streptococcus ...

The outcome of a pathogenic infection is influenced by the activities and functions of each interacting partner. Pathogens use sophisticated mechanisms to manipulate their host, but they also face ...

Brian P. Lazzaro from Cornell University discusses the role of dynamic feedbacks in determining infection outcomes ...

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 ...

An Osaka Metropolitan University-led research team investigated Escherichia albertii, what is known about this bacterium, and ...

Drone-based blow sampling advances pathogen surveillance in North Atlantic whales using DJI equipment for non-invasive health monitoring.

If an infection takes hold in an ants’ nest, it could spell disaster for the whole colony. But some worker ants appear to have a workaround for that. When exposed to a pathogen, black garden ants ...