Severe Shigella cases — also known as dysentery — can be fatal, though the bacterial strains now circulating in Oregon tend to cause milder illness.

Emerging tools enable more accurate antigen production and presentation using mRNA instead of protein. In recent years, mRNA technology has come into its own, most prominently in the field of vaccine ...

James Carville responded to Donald Trump's verbal clash with Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House by suggesting Trump get tested for a syphilis.

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The bacterium chlamydia trachomatis is a major cause of sexually transmitted diseases. Bacteria have lots of tricks up their ...

Mark Paylor is a poultry research specialist at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. Paylor said while their flock is strictly for research and academic purposes, he and other ...

Congenital syphilis cases are rising across the US. Discover how prevention screening and treatment can protect infant health ...

The five-year funding will support research into how disease-causing bacteria adapt to bypass their host’s immune system.

Gonorrhea is a widely known sexually transmitted infection (STI ... rapid diagnostic tools to detect drug resistance, ...

Genomic sequencing has revealed that individual strains of life-threatening, antibiotic-resistant bacteria and Candida auris ...

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and Arkansas Department of Health (ADH) have partnered to launch the ...

accounted for 58% and 72% reported cases of gonorrhea and syphilis, respectively, in 2023, as well as 20% of chlamydia cases. “MSM are overrepresented in all three bacterial STIs, with an ...