Secondary infections caused by bacteria or viruses during hospital care remain a long-standing global challenge, despite ...

Candida auris, a drug-resistant fungus that spreads through healthcare facilities, is gaining ground across the United States ...

Penn State College of Medicine is reporting on two cases of destructive infant meningitis linked to Paenibacillus infection, ...

Simple, uncomplicated SSSIs include erysipelas, cellulitis, furuncles, superficial abscesses and wound infections, whereas deeper complicated SSSIs (cSSSIs) include necrotizing fasciitis, myositis and ...

Scientists have made a major breakthrough in the accuracy and speed at which often deadly pathogen infections can be identified and treated. This is time that, in many cases, is critical to saving a ...

Most bacteria, including many bacterial pathogens, are surrounded by an outer protective layer of sugar molecules, known as a ...

July 16, 2010 (Atlanta, Georgia) — The incidence of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) O157 and Shigella infections has decreased, but there have been limited declines in the incidence of ...

A collaborative team has re-engineered the process of microbial pathogen identification in blood samples from pediatric sepsis patients using broad-spectrum pathogen capture technology. The advance ...

A research team has discovered a fundamental mechanism that helps the dreaded hospital pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii to survive. This mechanism explains why the pathogen is difficult to eradicate ...

We are now approaching six years since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, yet talk of ...