Category Archives: Infection

(This version of this article first appeared on our sister brand, ContagionLive.com®.) 3d rendered medically accurate illustration of the bronchi (Adobe Stock 282270645 By SciePro) Bacteriophage therapy, also known as phage therapy, is primarily used in Eastern Bloc nations and the Russian Federation to combat bacterial infections. However, in the United States, phage therapy is only […]

<div data-thumb="https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2023/how-antibodies-offer-p.jpg" data-src="https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/2023/how-antibodies-offer-p.jpg" data-sub-html="Credit: Cell Reports Medicine (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrm.2023.101201″> Credit: Cell Reports Medicine (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrm.2023.101201 A team of researchers investigating the transmission of HIV have discovered that HIV antibodies provide sterilizing immunity by inhibiting the infection of the first cell. The research is published in the journal Cell Reports Medicine. “HIV is a […]

Microphone voice speaker in seminar classroom, lecture hall or conference meeting: © Mongkol-stock.adobe.com At the opening plenary of IDWeek 2023, Isaac “Zak” Kohane, MD, PhD, the inaugural chair of Harvard Medical School’s Department of Biomedical Informatics, engaged infectious diseases experts by discussing the potential of medical AI while also highlighting its challenges. Kohane, a physician-scientist […]

Some children with mycoplasma pneumoniae infection get IVs in the outpatient hall of the children’s medical center at Guoyao Dongfeng General Hospital in Shiyan in Central China’s Hubei Province on October 12, 2023. Photo: from Shiyan Daily.  In recent days, there has been a surge in cases of infection by the bacterium mycoplasma pneumoniae reported […]

In a recent article published in Scientific Reports, researchers applied Gaussian Mixture model (GMM) statistical approaches to determine the drug-resistant genotypes in mixed strain infection (MSI) samples of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with whole genome sequencing (WGS) data. The study data could aid diagnosis and drug resistance (DR) mapping of tuberculosis (TB) patients for infection control. Study: Mixed infections in genotypic drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Image […]

Gregory Breed doesn’t remember exactly when he began suffering from symptoms of a chronic prostate infection. The 62-year-old estimates they began when he was in his mid-20s. By his early 30s, he was taking painkillers for lower back pain, a common outcome of the disease. Over the years, his doctors put him on course after […]