The US is in the throes an unusually intense and severe flu season, with hospitalization rates topping the levels seen with ...

From February 2022 to February 2023, they collected (using cotton swabs) and genetically sequenced bacterial samples from six ...

A tooth infection, or a tooth abscess, is a collection of pus and bacteria that forms inside the tooth or gum. To reduce the risk of complications, a person should seek treatment for a tooth ...

Tests on the "mysterious balls" which led to the closure of several Australian beaches last week have revealed they were made up partially of faecal bacteria. Nine beaches in Sydney were closed by ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) recently released new estimates suggesting around 846 million people aged between 15 and 49 live with a genital herpes infection. That's equivalent to one in ...

Bacterial immune evasion is the process by which bacteria avoid and antagonize the bacterial host response, which is mediated by the host's immune system.

First observed in 1960, MRSA continued to increase slowly in the bacterial population, until clinicians realized its significant virulence in the 1980s-1990s. MRSA was once eradicated reliably by ...

Scientists at Caltech and Princeton University have discovered that bacterial cells growing in a solution of polymers, such as mucus, form long cables that buckle and twist on each other ...

Although MRSA is mainly known for skin infections, they also affect the small intestine and cause gastrointestinal disease and have been researched very little compared to other things. Both bacterial ...