Tag: Infectious/Emerging Diseases

UCR identifies new tool to kill mosquitoesCredit: Jim Gathany/CDC Scientists have finally found malaria's Achilles' heel, a neurotoxin that isn't ...

Credit: Daniel Greenwood, Francis Crick Institute. Scientists have developed a new technique that enables them to visualise how well antibiotics ...

Findings can help guide surveillance and prevent deadly outbreaksCredit: Rajib Islam (Millbrook, NY) Since its discovery in 1999, Nipah virus ...

Women in Indian states with endemic visceral leishmaniasis - also known as Kala Azar - should be encouraged to seek ...

Credit: Walsh NM, et al. (2019) Pathogenic fungal spores capitalize on host immune cells to escape the lung and gain ...

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Throughout the gastrointestinal tract there are specialized hormone-producing cells called enteroendocrine cells and, although they ...

First-of-its-kind model could prove cheaper and more effective San Antonio, Texas (June 26, 2019) - When people suffer from both ...

At least 100 human genes are pressed into the parasite's service; represent possible drug targets for early stages of infectionCredit: ...

Malaria parasites develop faster in mosquitoes at lower temperatures than previously thoughtCredit: Penn State UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Malaria parasites ...

A meta-analysis including 60 million individuals in high-income countries finds significant decreases in HPV infections, anogenital wart diagnoses and precancerous ...

Update of the world's first comparative trial of mass drug administration against scabiesCredit: MCRI Results of a two-year update of ...

Patient safety is the primary objective of infection prevention but infection preventionists in a Syracuse healthcare system demonstrate how to ...

An interdisciplinary approach to antimicrobial stewardship involving comprehensive blood culture identification (BCID) testing decreased broad spectrum antibiotic use, according to ...

Credit: University of Michigan Health System Hand hygiene is a critical component of infection prevention in hospitals, but the unintended ...

Hospital-wide introduction of new female external catheter technology halved the number of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) according to new ...

In the early 20th century, researchers in Massachusetts studied the first community-based health intervention in the world, the Framingham Health ...

Credit: John Karlsson/LiU Around half of patients admitted to hospital in Vietnam are carriers of multiresistant intestinal bacteria, which are ...

Researchers discover new protective mechanismCredit: Sigal/Charité Stem cells are not only key players in tissue regeneration, they are also capable ...

As Asia and Europe battle African swine fever, University of Vermont research shows how farmers' risk attitudes affect the spread ...

Substantial reductions in maternal and child mortality reveal 'dramatic shift' from communicable to chronic conditions; Top risk factors are high ...