Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Pathogen reduction lowers the risk of transmitting dangerous pathogens to other patients. Examples of pathogen ...

Before the COVID pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) had made a list of priority infectious diseases. These were felt to pose a threat to international public health, but where research was ...

According to estimates, about a third of the world's population is infected with the single-celled parasite Toxoplasma gondii, the pathogen of toxoplasmosis. Although harmless for most people, the ...

The World Health Organization is opening up the definition of airborne pathogens – such as Covid-19, influenza and measles – to include when respiratory droplets spread through the air and when they ...

Microorganisms from our planet could survive on celestial bodies where water is present, such as Mars. That is the conclusion ...

Pathogens have been major causes of death and morbidity for millennia and even today are responsible for 3 of the top 10 causes of death worldwide (and 6 of the top 10 in lower income countries), ...

How do pathogens invade the lungs? Using human lung microtissues, a team has uncovered the strategy used by a dangerous pathogen. The bacterium targets specific lung cells and has developed a ...

For years scientists have puzzled over why the intracellular pathogen Salmonella is able to survive — and thrive — in human and animal tissues, even within otherwise hostile cells that are part of the ...

Infectious diseases have been major causes of death throughout human history and are assumed to broadly affect human psychology. However, whether and how conceptual processing, an internal world model ...

Infections with ESKAPE pathogens are associated with high mortality rates and other severe outcomes like prolonged hospitalization, higher treatment failure rates, and increased risk of intensive care ...