Here's what tuberculosis is, how it's transmitted and how you can expect to have it treated if it affects you or someone you ...

At the request of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, two committees established by the National Research Council organized workshops to identify promising new approaches to the ...

Infectious diseases research and clinical practice continue to evolve rapidly, driven by emerging pathogens, antimicrobial resistance, and advances in ...

This new article publication from Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, discusses the construction of a localized immune niche via supramolecular hydrogel vaccine to elicit durable and enhanced immunity ...

Infectious diseases have been a major threat to human health throughout history, causing significant economic damage worldwide. In modern medicine, quickly and accurately identifying the germs causing ...

Louisiana's vaccination rate dips below percentage sufficient for herd immunity. How do declining rates impact infectious ...

Scientists have developed a new machine-learning model to predict microbial load — the density of microbes in our guts — and used it to demonstrate how microbial load plays an important role in ...

A 5,500-year-old skeleton from Colombia has revealed the oldest known genome of the bacterium linked to syphilis and related ...

Using machine learning, researchers have developed a way to predict the total number of microbes in our gut from sequencing data, revealing that microbial density, influenced by factors like age and ...

For some infectious diseases, this may be true. Climate change appears to be changing where and when some infectious diseases occur. However, this is not the case for all infectious diseases. Several ...

A debilitating hoof disease affecting elk herds across the Pacific Northwest appears to be driven not by a single pathogen ...