Affecting roughly half a million Americans each year, bacterial infections caused by Clostridioides difficile —commonly known as C. diff —are a serious and persistent problem for patients and ...

Researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine are studying C. diff at multiple levels, from how individual bacterial ...

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

I am a 49-year-old woman who recently had COVID. When I was sick with it, I lost my sense of taste and smell. I no longer have COVID, but I still have a stuffy nose with no sense of taste or smell.

Sepsis and severe pneumonia are frequently accompanied by disruption of the gut microbiota, leading to immune dysfunction and ...

Testosterone can potentiate S. aureus quorum sensing independent of auto-inducing peptides, increasing toxin release and host-cell damage, whereas progesterone and estrogen do not show the same effect ...

Resident of Lake Hall is receiving medical treatment, KSU official says, and all close contacts have been reached by health officials.

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; ...

Researchers have discovered and characterized at the atomic level a mechanism that enables bacterial pathogens—including ...

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) pneumonia is a well-recognized cause of bacterial pneumonia, resulting in increased morbidity and mortality worldwide. Traditional antibiotics face ...

As vital as vaccines are, they can be frustratingly selective about their targets. Scientists from institutions across the US ...

AT least six deaths have now been linked to using potentially contaminated skin cleansing wipes, figures suggest. Earlier ...