In a recent study published in the United States (U.S.) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal, a team of scientists conducted a cross-sectional ...

Researchers from Peking University have conducted an in-depth study on the epidemic status, secular trends, and risk factors of 15 common neonatal infectious diseases across low- and middle-income ...

A communicable disease is one that spreads from one person or animal to another or from a surface to a person. They are the result of pathogens, such as viruses and bacteria. Communicable diseases ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In a small study, researchers detected gastrointestinal pathogens in 45% of men who have sex with men taking HIV ...

Intestinal epithelial cells lining the surface of our gastro-intestinal tract form a tight monolayer which serves as the primary barrier separating us from the luminal content of the gut. The lumen of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever are clinically indistinguishable and produce the syndrome known as enteric ...

An analysis of 12 years of data collected from over 500 hospitals in 25 different U.S. states shows that weather, geographic location, and urban or rural location all appear to influence ...

AT a Chadwick Lecture on this subject delivered on February 20 at the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Dr. J. D. Rolleston discussed the various acute infectious diseases in relation to ...

PART I: -- An overview: how infection began and became disease / C.L. Greenblatt -- Earth history, disease, and the evolution of primates / L.D. Martin -- Bacterial symbionts of protozoa in aqueous ...

In the post-vaccine era, rotavirus has become just another cause of acute gastroenteritis in most cases. But is there anything new in diagnosis and treatment? To Test or Not to Test? Commercially ...