Tag: Infectious/Emerging Diseases

LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 1, 2019) -- Most people think of "strep throat" as a relatively benign infection cured by a ...

ORLANDO, Fla., March 31, 2019 -- As current antibiotics dwindle in effectiveness against multidrug-resistant pathogens, researchers are seeking potential replacements ...

Pneumonia starts like this: A bacterial cell called Streptococcus pneumoniae enters the nostril. It travels down the nasal passage and ...

Student-centered support tools reduce vaccine-associated pain, fear, and fainting during school-based clinicsLearn about how to reduce pain, fear and dizziness ...

The role of mosquitoes in spreading malaria is the biggest factor behind a recent study that found them to be ...

A common bacterial pathogen called Pseudomonas aeruginosa produces a virus that substantially increases the pathogen's ability to infect us, according ...

Credit: NIAID (CC BY 2.0, 2016) Mosquito-borne viruses, such as dengue, chikungunya, and Zika, already threaten over a billion people ...

Columbia researchers warn that NYC's Asian longhorned tick population is larger than previously knownCredit: Center for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Credit: Xiong Jiang/Georgetown WASHINGTON -- A new map of brain tissue in people with HIV shows atrophy in several areas ...

About 40 percent of the global population is at risk for contracting dengue - the most important mosquito-borne viral infection ...

WASHINGTON -- As many as a billion people could be newly exposed to disease-carrying mosquitoes by the end of the ...

The discovery of these seemingly out-of-place sensing cells may lend insight into possibilities for protecting lung function in people who ...

Fungal infection is life-threatening to people with weakened immune systems, such as those with blood cancers, HIV infection or following ...

Credit: Alex Wild Female mosquitoes are known to rely on an array of sensory information to find people to bite, ...