Six people in California reported infection with Rocky Mountain spotted fever, all of whom had visited Tecate, Mexico, just ...

Researchers have made great strides to prevent deaths from fatal diseases, but the cures for some of them still elude us.

This molecular tool is well-suited for the rapid detection of bacteria directly ... of related diseases. It is particularly suitable for the diagnosis of infections caused by fastidious growth ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has said disease-causing bacteria were found in certain Tom ...

Melioidosis is an infectious disease caused by bacteria that lives in tropical soil and water. It has claimed five lives in the Northern Territory over the past year. In the year before that ...

From there, the bacteria traveled into the brain ... pneumoniae might cause in the development of neurodegenerative diseases. “However,“ he added, “in certain situations — such as when ...

The state investigated after a company failed to address a Legionnaires’ outbreak and the bacteria grew again – killing one ...

The UK is close to eradicating a potentially fatal bacterial disease that can cause meningitis and septicaemia, new figures suggest. There were just three cases of meningococcal group C - the ...

Antibacterial drugs are important for treating infections. But increasingly, bacterial resistance to current drugs -- so they don't work well, or even at all -- means new ones are urgently needed.

It has been a year ago since bacteria from war-wounded at hospitals in Ukraine were analysed. The study, which attracted a ...

Doctors are seeing a troubling rise in colorectal cancer cases among young adults under 50. Once considered a disease ...

Rice is one of the world's most essential food crops, but its production is constantly threatened by leaf diseases caused by ...