Researchers have revealed how a common bacterium, Enterococcus faecalis (E. faecalis), releases lactic acid to acidify its surroundings and suppress the immune-cell signal needed to start a proper ...

In infectious disease research, it is widely accepted that disrupting bacterial communication signals is beneficial. But this ...

Microbiologist holds a petri dish growing bacteria, Klebsiella pneumoniae, one species that can become resistant to last-resort antibiotics. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is ...

A vaccine usually trains your immune system to recognize one target. Here, the target is basically “anything that doesn’t belong in the lungs.

The odor and discharge are strongly suggestive of a bacterial sinus infection. COVID infections, like all viral infections, ...

Affecting roughly half a million Americans each year, bacterial infections caused by Clostridioides difficile—commonly known ...

Severe acute pancreatitis is frequently complicated by hospital-acquired infections that worsen outcomes and prolong intensive care stays. New evidence suggests that modulating the microbiome may ...

After lung transplantation, infection with Pseudomonas aeruginosa independently predicted antibody-mediated rejection (AMR), researchers found. Through a series of mouse-model studies, the researchers ...

The family of Liam Dahlberg is urging parents to make sure their children are protected against the aggressive illness Go Fund Me Ashlee Dahlberg’s son, Liam, came home from school with a headache; ...

A routine trip to the nail salon turned into a nightmare for Claudia Ruffin, a 27-year-old Sydney woman who contracted a ...

Drug-resistant bacteria are becoming harder to treat, pushing scientists to look for new antibiotic targets. Researchers have now discovered that several unrelated viruses disable a key bacterial ...