Expert doctors in infectious disease and lung health speak to the transmissibility of walking pneumonia and more infection facts.

Abstract: Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (AST) is necessary to properly identify if a pathogen is susceptible or resistant to a given antimicrobial agent. However, current methods utilizing ...

The finding means that bacteria, such as the one they studied, could degrade medical implants, lead to infections at the site ...

This means we need to reconsider how pathogens exist in the hospital environment. Plastics, including plastic surfaces, could ...

But not just any plastic. It can break down polycaprolactone (PCL) — a biodegradable polymer widely used in medical implants ...

such as quantitative PCR and reverse transcription PCR (RT-PCR), highly improve the diagnosis of pneumonia as they are rapid, specific and more sensitive systems of pathogen detection (Figure 3).

Host immune and proinflammatory responses to respiratory virus infections play key roles in disease pathogenesis and ... asthma exacerbation, viral pneumonia and acute lung injury), population ...

aDepartment of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China bDepartment of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, ...

ABSTRACT: Background: Streptococcus pyogenes (group A streptococcus, GAS) is an important human bacterial pathogen. This organism possesses many virulence factors, Streptococcal pyrogenic exotoxinone ...

Streptococcus Group A affects close to 20% of U.S. children, according to Dr. Joshua Osowicki, senior research fellow at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Australia.