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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

During infection, reversible switch permits flexible formation of memory T cells, long-lived blood cells that can remember pathogen encounters and respond upon reinfection. Unexpected findings have ...

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 ...