Using a small and inexpensive biosensor, researchers at UBC Okanagan, in collaboration with the University of Calgary, have built a
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Importance of infant diet in establishing a healthy gut
A child has until the age of two-and-a-half to establish healthy gut bacteria — with little change after this point,
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How malaria infection activates natural killer cells
Malaria-infected red blood cells trigger the immune system’s first line of defense by releasing small vesicles that activate a pathogen
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Infectious bacteria hibernate to evade antibiotics
University of Copenhagen researchers have discovered a surprising tactic of pathogenic bacteria when being attacked by antibiotics: hibernation. Almost all
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New test procedure accelerates the diagnosis of multi-resistant hospital pathogens
A team of researchers at the University of Cologne’s Faculty of Medicine and the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF)
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E. coli’s adaptation to extreme temperatures helps explain resistance to certain drugs
Long before bacteria had to contend with antibiotic drugs, they had to survive extreme temperatures as Earth warmed and cooled
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Gut bacteria provide key to making universal blood
In January, raging storms caused medical emergencies along the U.S. East Coast, prompting the Red Cross to issue an urgent
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Crowdsourcing friendly bacteria helps superbug cause infection
Antimicrobial resistant pathogens crowdsource friendly bacteria to survive in immune cells and cause disease, a new study by the University
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Whole genome sequencing reveals cluster of resistant bacteria in returning travelers: OXA-48-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae ST392 found in 13 patients previously hospitalized in Gran Canaria
Thirteen patients with OXA-48-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae ST392 have been reported by Sweden and Norway between January and April 2018 —
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New method can quickly and accurately detect infections: New method is quicker and more accurate than existing tests
A new study by Waldemar Gorski, professor and chair of the UTSA Department of Chemistry, and Stanton McHardy, associate professor
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