Most people with E. coli infections are never tested for the bacterium and recover on their own. Thirteen states have reported cases: Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska ...

When thinking about the immune system, most people think about B and T cells and how they can be trained to recognize pathogens, preventing re-infections. Besides this "adaptive" immune system, we ...

The following is a summary of “Exploring the appropriate situation of performing CSF mNGS in patients with proposed intracranial infections,” published in the November 2024 issue of Neurology by Deng ...

Research has shown that fungal lung infections in the lungs can possibly be mistaken for lung cancer. Fungal lung infections may appear similar to lung cancer in both the symptoms they cause and how ...

Attention is also given to pathogens such as Group A streptococcus, which causes severe infections and contributes to 280,000 deaths from rheumatic heart disease, mainly in lower-income countries.

Sepsis is a life threatening illness that develops when an existing infection triggers an extreme immune system response in your body. When you experience an infection, your immune system releases ...

Staphylococcal (staph) infection is caused when bacteria called Staphyloccocus enters the body, usually through a skin cut or wound. Staphyloccocus aureus is the most common type to infect humans, ...

From bacteria to humans, adaptive immune systems provide learned memories of past infections. Despite their vast biological differences, adaptive immunity shares features from microbes to vertebrates ...

The bacteria may come from a person's skin or rectum. UTI treatments depend on the type of pathogen causing the infection. A healthcare provider can obtain and send a urine sample for testing to ...