Mycoplasma phocimorsus is a zoonotic pathogen, often transmitted from seals, that is resistant to common antibiotics and can ...

Getty Image This is a medical first. Alaskan officials are ringing the warning bells after a man developed an infection from ...

University of Queensland researchers say Australia's reptiles are at risk of extinction because a little understood fungus is ...

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 ...

Cryptococcus neoformans is one of four fungi classified as "critical priority" on the WHO's Fungal Pathogens Priority List, ...

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 ...

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

Our immune system relies on T cells to fight infections. But T cells don't just show up and react—first, they train, get a game plan, and coordinate their defenses in lymphoid organs. Researchers have ...

An experimental treatment protects mice from COVID-19, flu, bacteria, and more.

As in the study reported by Shahi, successful pathogen identification greatly increased the chances of successful treatment. Defining failure as reoperation for infection or use of chronic antibiotic ...