Each year 5-10 per cent of all the children born in the world are born prematurely. At this stage, their
Faecal transplant may protect premature babies from fatal bowel disease
Most patients with cystic fibrosis may receive insufficient antibiotics to fight lung infections: Real-time tracking of serum antibiotic concentrations could help recovery from pulmonary exacerbations
The majority of patients with cystic fibrosis may not achieve blood concentrations of antibiotics sufficiently high enough to effectively fight
PrEP implementation is associated with a rapid decline in new HIV infections
Rapid, targeted, and high-coverage roll-out of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to men who have sex with men was associated with a
Bacteriophages can affect melioidosis disease acquisition
An international research team from the University of Leicester, Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), and the Moscow Institute of Physics
Certain antibiotic-resistant infections on the rise
Nearly six percent of urinary tract infections analyzed by a California emergency department were caused by drug-resistant bacteria in a
Advancing transplantation: Hepatitis C-infected organs safe for transplantation when followed by antiviral treatment
Twenty patients at Penn Medicine have been cured of the Hepatitis C virus (HCV) following lifesaving kidney transplants from deceased
Quiet viruses alter body’s response to vaccines, pathogens: Low levels of cytomegalovirus change microbe and immune cell populations and response to influenza vaccine
UC Davis researchers have shown that low levels of cytomegalovirus (CMV) have a significant impact on microbe and immune cell
Phages work together to suppress CRISPR bacterial immunity
CRISPR, or clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats, are an essential part of bacterial immunity designed to defend against foreign
New compounds to treat RSV, Zika virus: New chemical compound shows promising antiviral activity
A new and promising class of chemical compounds has major potential for treating Zika virus and respiratory syncytial virus, or
New vaccine candidates for malaria
Researchers have shown that higher levels of Plasmodium falciparum antibodies are protective against severe malaria in children living in Papua