Brian P. Lazzaro from Cornell University discusses the role of dynamic feedbacks in determining infection outcomes ...

Dealing with an infection isn't as straightforward as simply killing the pathogen. The body also needs to carefully steer and ...

Both the diagnosis and management of infectious diseases in hospitalized patients remain prominent clinical challenges and are associated with a substantial financial burden for healthcare systems.

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that kills more than a million people worldwide every year. The pathogen that causes the disease, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is deadly in part because of ...

Molly Bletz, assistant professor of disease ecology at Penn State, has been awarded a 2025 New Investigator Grant by the ...

The sepsis definition describes three elements: infection, the host response and life-threatening organ dysfunction. Diagnosis is made based on myriad signs and symptoms, and although infection ...

When a maize plant is attacked by the fungus Ustilago maydis, tumor-like tissue growths occur at the site of infection. How the pathogen causes this response in its host has long been unknown. But a ...

The Sepsis-1, Sepsis-2, and Sepsis-3 definitions are for adult sepsis. The IPCC (International Pediatric Sepsis Consensus Conference) and Phoenix definitions are for pediatric sepsis. ARDS denotes ...

An overview of how specialty laboratories use integrated scientific approaches to deliver high-quality infectious disease ...