Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Published results showed blood microbial cell-free DNA sequencing may accurately identify pathogens and be used ...

J. Paul Robinson, a Purdue Veterinary Medicine faculty member in the Department of Basic Medical Sciences, helped develop a Purdue innovation that creates a fingerprint-like pattern to identify ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have identified the mechanisms behind inflammasome activation driven by infection with the fungal pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus. Fungal infection, ...

Mystery infections—persistent and unexplained illnesses—are a rising global health challenge, often delaying critical treatment as patients and clinicians search for answers. Today, advanced genetic ...

A revolutionary new medical test highlighted in a study in Nature Medicine could transform infection diagnostics forever. This new metagenomic sequencing test can detect a broad range of ...

Scanogen Inc ., a molecular diagnostics company pioneering next-generation technologies for infectious disease detection, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted ...

WOUND care experts at the University of Huddersfield have joined forces with industry to pool their expertise for a research project that aims to not only significantly improve quality of life for ...

Some pathogens hide inside human cells to enhance their survival. Researchers have uncovered a unique tactic certain bacteria use to spread in the body without being detected by the immune system. In ...

Simple, uncomplicated SSSIs include erysipelas, cellulitis, furuncles, superficial abscesses and wound infections, whereas deeper complicated SSSIs (cSSSIs) include necrotizing fasciitis, myositis and ...

Researchers have developed a sophisticated new tool that could help provide early warning of rare and unknown viruses in the environment and identify potentially deadly bacterial pathogens which cause ...