Tag: Infectious/Emerging Diseases

Researchers at Kanazawa University have discovered that an insect virus (a baculovirus) can completely eliminate liver-stage malaria parasites in mice, ...

Credit: Jonathan Crackne Diseases and tuberculosis in particular can pose considerable challenges for wildlife. In order to avoid epidemics within ...

Findings suggest common cleaning methods leave bacteria behind NEW YORK (December 12, 2018) -- Stethoscopes carried by health care practitioners ...

MU researchers are getting a deeper understanding how mosquito-borne viruses infect the mosquito -- an important step toward eliminating the ...

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine New insights into how dengue and Zika viruses cause disease reveal shared and virus-specific mechanisms. ...

How cross-kingdom communication led to a breakthrough phage therapyCredit: Denise Applewhite, Office of Communications, Princeton University Princeton molecular biologist Bonnie ...

Study finds that workers who wore face masks consistently on the job were much less likely to carry antibiotic-resistant staph--and ...

Levels can greatly exceed those in water, with potential health risksCredit: Kevin Krajic/Earth Institute, Columbia University A new study shows ...

Arlington, Va., December 13, 2018 - Home healthcare workers' beliefs about infection prevention influence whether they comply with prevention protocols ...

A routine check revealed a previously undocumented behavior in the intestinal parasiteCredit: Sarah Poynton, Johns Hopkins Medicine Johns Hopkins researchers ...

Ground-breaking discovery reveals new clues to stop the spread of deadly infections Using state-of-the art technologies to image human cells ...

Insight into how three of the world's most devastating viruses interact with human cells opens the door for much-needed treatments ...

Drug that mimics function of protein could one day become an effective therapy to fight Ebola virusCredit: Northwestern University Human ...

Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Drs. Mary K. Estes, Bert O'Malley and Huda Zoghbi of Baylor College of Medicine were ...

Credit: Georgia State University ATLANTA--Several new connections have been discovered between the proteins of the Ebola virus and human host ...

Asian longhorned tick could find plenty of suitable habitat in North America similar to its native regionCredit: Ilia Rochlin, Ph.D., ...

Credit: Wetzel and Shaefer, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain, 2001 Of the 34 million people worldwide with HIV, and the 200 ...

Staphylococcus epidermidis is an ubiquitous colonizer of healthy human skin, but it is also a notorious source of serious nosocomial ...

LA JOLLA, CA - For more than 20 years, scientists at Scripps Research have chipped away at the challenges of ...

A simple algorithm could contribute to reducing the high mortality among newborns and babies in the month following their hospital ...