A new study reveals widespread resistance of a major bacterial pathogen to the active ingredients in cleaning agents commonly used in hospitals and homes. The American Chemical Society Infectious ...

Caltech researchers have reintroduced a classic technique to image the formation and growth of individual cells that make up ...

Scientists have discovered that erucamide, a plant-produced fatty acid amide, disrupts the function of the bacterial injectosome—a syringe-like nanomachine that some pathogenic bacteria use to help ...

Varieties of Gram-negative bacterial pathogens infect their eukaryotic hosts by deploying the type III translocon to deliver effector proteins into the cytosol of eukaryotic cells in which effectors ...

Scientists used DNA testing on 1,200-year-old feces to detect E. coli, pinworms, and Giardia in ancient Mexico, and found ...

Bacteria use multiple defense mechanisms to survive in the host body. Shigella bacteria that cause colitis disable multiple ...

Future Microbiol. 2010;5(2):267-288. The development and use of informatics tools and databases for glycobiology and glycomics research has increased considerably in recent years. However, the general ...

A bacterial infection once considered rare, with a frighteningly high mortality rate, is now surging, and experts warned that rising temperatures and warming seas are the culprit, CNN reported. Vibrio ...

Nearly 80 beef cattle died in Wyoming due to a natural occurrence of anthrax, a bacterial pathogen that can survive in the soil for years or even decades, “resulting in sporadic outbreaks which ...

With the comprehensive study and complete sequencing of the Haemophilus influenzae genome in 1995 came the term 'genomics' and the beginning of the 'omics' era. Since this time, several analogous ...