Infection with Zika virus in pregnancy can lead to neurological disorders, fetal abnormalities and fetal death. Until now, how the virus manages to cross the placenta, which nurtures the developing ...

Infection with Zika virus in pregnancy can lead to neurological disorders, fetal abnormalities and fetal death. Until now, ...

Walking pneumonia is a milder form of pneumonia that can affect children. Know the signs of walking pneumonia in kids, and ...

Mycoplasma contamination often comes from infected cultures shared between research labs. It can also sneak in through cell culture media and animal products used in cell culture. Even the lab team ...

A fungal infection has been shown to trigger a fruit fly's own immune system to destroy brain cells leading to signs of neurodegeneration, a new study has found.

The answer lies in how infected individuals invest into controlling pathogen proliferation and mitigating damage, two strategies respectively called resistance and disease tolerance. Pathogen ...

In 2020-2021, a mysterious skin disease affected fishermen in Senegal. High levels of Portimine A toxin, produced by the ...

Cases of bacterial sexually transmitted infections are on the rise worldwide. An international team led by the University of Zurich has now developed a new method for genome sequencing and discovered ...

“ID3+ T cells have the remarkable ability to resist burnout and maintain a powerful immune response over time, making them particularly effective in the face of chronic infections or cancer ...

Due to their limited metabolic capacity, which is a consequence of their small genome and lack of cell wall, they are fastidious and some of them are laborious to be cultured. As such, they can be ...

The epidemiologic characteristics of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection ... Pathogenesis of lung injury in M. pneumoniae infection may be associated with cell-mediated immune reactions and many ...