A Florida man in his 70s contracted an extremely rare, life-threatening infection in his implanted defibrillator after eating ...

The pontiff left the hospital on Sunday following treatment for a severe respiratory infection that led to bilateral ...

Walter notes that despite the progress Kenya has made in the fight against TB, President Donald Trump’s stop order on foreign ...

Increased antibiotic use can lead, seemingly paradoxically, to more problematic infections, as the bacteria evolve to resist the treatment. The answer to this antimicrobial resistance, which the ...

Like people, bacteria get invaded by viruses. In bacteria, the viral invaders are called bacteriophages, derived from the Greek word for bacteria-eaters, or in shortened form, "phages." ...

Mucormycosis, a fungal infection caused by Mucorales, has high mortality rates in people with weakened immune systems and ...

A drug-resistant type of bacteria that has adapted to health care settings evolved in the past several years to weaponize an antimicrobial genetic tool, eliminating its cousins and replacing them as ...

Like people, bacteria get invaded by viruses. In bacteria, the viral invaders are called bacteriophages, derived from the ...

Biologics targeting interleukin-12, -23, and -17 were associated with a lower rate of serious infections among older adults ...

The COVID-19 pandemic reminded us that our knowledge of infectious disease keeps evolving, inviting us to rethink and improve ...

New research suggests that VREfm have the ability to produce bacteriocin, an antimicrobial that can kill or inhibit other ...

Ph.D., associate professor of medicine in Pitt's Division of Infectious Diseases. "And when we took a step back and zoomed out, it quickly became apparent that big changes were afoot with one of the ...