Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne illness, but it is not the only one. Ticks can also transmit a range of other infections known as co-infections, which can occur alongside or instead of Lyme ...

New research by the University of Sydney offers important insights into how and when new coronavirus variants arise in bats. Bats are beneficial to our ecosystems and economy but, as habitat ...

It's called a co-infection. It means being infected with two viruses at the same time. This winter, some pediatricians report they're seeing an increase in children with co-infections. But why is that ...

For millions suffering from long COVID, their persistent breathlessness, brain fog and fatigue remain a maddening mystery, but a group of leading microbiologists think they may have cracked the case.

Flu activity remains high, with seniors and children at significant risk, and co-infections becoming more common, partly due to advanced testing. Dr. Camille Sabella notes the flu season started ...

The team’s study, “COVID-19 bacteremic co-infection is a major risk factor for mortality, ICU admission, and mechanical ventilation," was recently published in Critical Care. A collaborative study ...

In a recent study published in Nature Communications, a group of researchers evaluated the prevalence of co-infection and intra-host recombination in over 2 million global Severe Acute Respiratory ...

Long COVID continues to afflict many people, and confound doctors. We have learned more about various trajectories the illness can take, who is at risk, and ways to reduce the risk of the illness, ...