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The Trump administration fired everyone in a CDC lab that is crucial to tracking drug-resistant gonorrhea and other sexually ...

Once considered obscure or opportunistic, invasive fungal infections are now surfacing with alarming frequency - and in ...

C. difficile (C. diff) is one of the most common and contagious hospital-acquired infections. Research has found that C. diff spreads more than three times more than previously thought. C. diff can ...

Clostridium difficile is a bacteria that spreads easily, is 'immune' to disinfectants and kills about six percent of people ...

C. diff, a dangerous and highly contagious infection, spreads in hospitals much more than previously believed, especially ...

Scientists at La Trobe University have discovered how a diarrhea-causing strain of bacteria uses "molecular scissors" to cut ...

Most cases of nocardiosis start out as lung infections, in which pus-filled cavities, or abscesses containing the bacteria, form in the lungs. This can cause symptoms such as chest pain, a cough ...

Here's what tuberculosis is, how it's transmitted and how you can expect to have it treated if it affects you or someone you ...

Tuberculosis is a "near-perfect predator," John Green said in his book "Everything is Tuberculosis." The bacterial infection, ...

Skin microbes do more than coexist—they shape immune responses, repair tissue, and influence gene expression across your ...

The pathogens Giardia duodenalis and Cryptosporidium are common causes of sometimes-fatal intestinal diseases in humans, ...