Northwestern Medicine scientists have uncovered new details about how poxvirus hijacks its host's protein synthesis machinery ...

Reducing the copies of one gene in the bubonic plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, made it less deadly but potentially more ...

Scientists have documented the way a single gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis, allowed it to ...

However, telangiectasias are also a classic feature of certain autoimmune diseases that affect the skin and other connective tissues (also called connective tissue diseases): There are many different ...

Background and purpose Studying the imaging and histopathologic characteristics of thrombi in ischemic stroke could provide insights into stroke etiology and ideal treatment strategies. We conducted a ...

Normally, a vacation to a tropical locale involves sunburns, maybe some bug bites, and sand stuck in your hair. For one ...

Twelve of 13 members of one family fell ill upon returning to the United States from a Costa Rica trip in late December. A ...

A new report describes how 12 members of an extended US family who toured a bat-colonized Costa Rican cave tied to a previous histoplasmosis outbreak returned with confirmed or likely cases of the ...

This article discusses the causes, diagnosis, and treatment of chronic mucus. It also looks at some potential treatments. Mucus is a thin liquid made of water, proteins, salts, cells, and cellular ...

Histoplasmosis is a systemic mycosis caused by inhalation of Histoplasma capsulatum microconidia. The disease does not normally affect immunocompetent individuals after a single, transient inhalation ...

The sun has had quite a busy week hurling solar flares at our planet, causing blackouts across the globe. “After weeks of calm, solar activity is suddenly high again,” reports Spaceweather.com ...

"We've taken the coccidioides organism, the fungus that causes Valley Fever ... Fever may only be restricted to the southwest, but Histoplasmosis and Blastomycosis, the other big fungal infections ...