Tag: Infectious/Emerging Diseases

A research team led by scientists at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health report on a new method ...

Lay provider HIV testing in Vietnam offers new model to connect at-risk populations with antiretroviral therapy, PATH-led study showsCredit: PATH ...

December 28, 2018 - Wolters Kluwer, Health and the American Journal of Nursing (AJN) announced the 2018 winners of its ...

Credit: S. Rupp, 2018 (CC BY 4.0) Animal diseases that infect humans are a major threat to human health, and ...

Credit: Lucia Romani, 2018, CC BY 4.0 For years, the diagnosis of scabies has relied on time-consuming and intrusive full-body ...

Parasitic protozoa called trypanosomes synthesize sugars using an unexpected metabolic pathway called gluconeogenesis, according to a study published December 27 ...

Researchers tested the effectiveness of a topical antibiotic in eliminating Staphylococcus aureus colonization in hospitalized infants BALTIMORE, MD, Dec. 26, ...

This article by Dr. Dolores Gonzalez Pacanowska et al. is published in Current Medicinal Chemistry, 2018 Kinetoplastid and apicomplexan parasites ...

Bottom Line: Hepatitis C virus infection is a major cause of illness and death in the United States and injection ...

Almost 60 percent of patients were prescribed antibiotics in a way that did not follow AUA guidelines A new study ...

This article by Dr. Ahmed A. Haroun et al. is published in Current Bioactive Compounds, Volume 14 , Issue 4 ...

Credit: Mary Gillham Archive Project, Flickr, CC BY 2.0, 2017 Since 2012, the number of cases of leprosy in Morocco ...

Findings could lead to early diagnosis, better treatment studiesCredit: NIAID WHAT: An ultrasensitive test has been developed that detects a ...

The pneumonia causing pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa has developed a twin-track strategy to colonize its hostCredit: Image: University of Basel, Biozentrum ...

Intervention could be used to increase screening for other infectious diseasesCredit: Jon Gardiner/UNC Chapel-Hill Chapel Hill, N.C. - Chinese gay ...

A team from GW is investigating the causes of cardiovascular disease in HIV-infected patients WASHINGTON (Dec. 20, 2018) -- Atherosclerosis ...

Wide dissemination of colistin-resistant Escherichia coli, a growing therapeutic concern, in rural communities in Vietnam revealedCredit: Osaka University A team ...

Credit: CDC (Deborah S. Jacobs, Jia Yin) WASHINGTON, DC -- Contact lenses are worn by an estimated 45 million Americans. ...

Scientists at the KU Leuven Rega Institute in Belgium have developed a new vaccine against the Zika virus. This vaccine ...

Vaccine is highly effective, but prevents only a small number of cases A computer-generated model developed by Johns Hopkins Medicine ...