Infectious/Emerging Diseases

Credit: University of Rochester Medical Center A new needle-free flu vaccine patch revved up the immune system much like a traditional flu shot without any negative side effects, according to a study published in the Journal of…

Iron-deficient blood makes it easier for dengue virus to colonize and multiply in mosquitoes' guts Mosquitoes are more likely to acquire the dengue virus when they feed on blood with low levels of iron, researchers report in the 16…

WASHINGTON--Valley fever is endemic to hot and dry regions like the southwestern United States and California's San Joaquin Valley, but a new study predicts climate change will cause the fungal infection's range to more than double…

Credit: Santiago Sanchez-Vicente, Stony Brook University In a study published in mBio, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology, Jorge Benach and Rafal Tokarz, and their co-authors at Stony Brook University and Columbia…

University of York scientists are part of an international team which has discovered how a parasite responsible for spreading a serious tropical disease protects itself from starvation once inside its human host. University of York…

FAU Harbor branch, collaborators examine 13 years of antibiotic resistance trends in bottlenose dolphinsCredit: Brian Cousin, Florida Atlantic University's Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute Antibiotic resistance is one of…

Researchers from Osaka University find that a relatively ancient drug efflux pump in Haemophilus influenzae confers resistance to the same drugs as its more evolved counterparts, and is only mitigated by a slightly leaky membrane…

Discovery could lead to new added therapy for HIV patientsCredit: Texas Biomedical Research Institute San Antonio, Texas (September 11, 2019) - Tuberculosis and HIV - two of the world's deadliest infectious diseases - are far worse…

Today the Global Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Research and Development (R&D) Hub is pleased to announce that India has joined the Hub as a new Member. This expands the global partnership working to address challenges and improve…

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Papillomavirus has traditionally been considered strictly a sexually transmitted disease, but a recent study found that rabbit and mouse papillomaviruses could be transferred by blood to their respective hosts.…