Pathogenicity is the potential capacity of certain species of microbes to cause an infectious process. It is characterised by a complex of pathogenic properties in the microbe formed in the process of ...

A common hospital-acquired pathogen is showing alarming levels of resistance to common cleaning products, according to US ...

Predatory bacteria, known as BALOs, are microscopic yet formidable hunters of other microbes, pivotal in both environmental ...

Balance must be maintained among the trillions of microbes that live in the gastrointestinal tract. Beneficial microbes have ...

White band disease has been devastating colonies of staghorn and elkhorn corals in the Caribbean, but the major pathogenic ...

Nematodes can sniff out trouble, kicking off a mitochondrial defense in the gut to fend off bacterial invaders.

the clustered bacteria also lose the ability to move around, find nutrients, and spread effectively. For P. aeruginosa infecting a lung, this poses a dilemma: should it spread across the lung's ...

A pathogen of critical priority More than 2.8 ... aeruginosa, like other gram-negative bacteria, is enclosed in a second, fatty outer membrane that acts as a protective capsule, making it more ...

The study is the first global effort to systematically prioritize endemic pathogens based on their regional and global health ...

Of the 217 patients who underwent metagenomic next-generation sequencing, 179 pathogenic microorganisms were detected, ...

Cheese is being recalled over listeria concerns by the FDA, and includes a variety of soft cheeses at Aldi, Market Basket, ...