The syphilis pathogen, Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum, can now be cultivated in vitro using cottontail rabbit skin cells, eliminating the need for laboratory animals.

However, the last 100 years have also been characterised by outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics caused by emerging and re-emerging pathogens, most of which have been zoonotic in origin.

A new technique known as phylowave showed potential to identify differences in fitness among viral and bacterial pathogens, based on data from a study including SARS-CoV-2, influenza A subtype ...

While the study showed a possible transmission of pathogens, it did not study the volume or the feasibility of infection. Rather, a team of engineers explained a set of circumstances that could ...

Pathogens are infectious agents, such as a bacterium, virus, fungus or parasite, that cause disease when they colonize a host organism. Dysbiosis is a harbinger of severe intestinal pathologies ...

U.S.A.I.D. Advertisement Supported by Organizations funded by the United States helped keep dangerous pathogens in check around the world. Now many safeguards are gone, and Americans may pay the ...

Here’s what we know about his condition. Polymicrobial infections are caused by multiple pathogens, including bacteria, fungi or parasites. These infections can cause both chronic and short ...

in which a nobleman’s masquerade ball held during a brutal plague is interrupted by the Grim Reaper. Because despite what Silicon Valley vampires who hope to beat death want to believe ...

Wastewater surveillance and the technologies that enable sensitive, rapid, high-throughput pathogen analysis provide valuable insights to researchers and public health professionals, informing ...

Health experts see his retreat from international cooperation as disrupting the safe-keepers of one of the world’s deadliest pathogens. By William J. Broad In 1999, William J. Broad and two ...

Mar. 5, 2025 — Antimalarial drug resistance is a pressing issue in combating the spread of malaria worldwide. In a new study, researchers discovered a key process where malarial parasites take ...