According to the CDC, every year, about 9.9 million Americans suffer from foodborne illnesses acquired at home. When we get ...
A newly discovered virus hiding inside a common gut bacterium could help explain one of medicine’s long-standing mysteries: why a microbe found in both healthy people and cancer patients is linked to ...
Transposable elements have proliferated in the bacterium Enterococcus faecium, altering its metabolism and genome structure.
A DNA analysis of pathogens from a pre-Hispanic mummy revealed the bacterium that causes strep throat was present in the ...
Pathogens are infectious agents, such as a bacterium, virus, fungus or parasite, that cause disease when they colonize a host organism. A macrolide resistant Bordetella pertussis lineage (MT28) ...