Bacteria are becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics. This "race" can lead to a situation where antibiotics will stop ...

Food safety expert Jean Dibble named four products that should not be consumed on board an airplane. They are milk, meat, ...

Scientists from the Institute of Nano Science and Technology (INST) Mohali, an autonomous institution of the Department of ...

A new approach to treat rosacea and other inflammatory skin conditions could be on the horizon, according to a University of Pittsburgh study published in Science Translational Medicine.

Virulence, therefore, is an index of the qualitative individual nature of the pathogenic micro-organism. Virulence in pathogenic microbes changes under the influence of natural conditions.

Researchers from Lund University discovered that Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteria found in Ukraine war-wounded victims are not only resistant to all antibiotics but are also particularly aggressive ...

It was expected this would include both commensals (not harmful) and pathogenic (disease-causing) strains. This is because of the numbers of pupils in a classroom, the close and prolonged nature of ...

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The capacity of bacteria to spread disease across the plant kingdom may be much more widespread than previously suspected, ...

Researchers at the John Innes Centre have discovered that the capacity of bacteria to spread disease in plants is more extensive than known before. Using Pseudomonas syringae, they found that the ...

One common fly has successfully fought off its wasp predator by stealing a gene from bacteria that originated in ... Sugar Solution Fights Infection in Dairy Cows Just as Well as Antibiotics Dec.

How does pathogen contamination of splash pools occur? Splash pads are intentionally designed so that standing water does not ...