Children who mature around dogs are healthier on average and require fewer antibiotics than other babies.
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US sewage treatment plants likely don’t get rid of all the disease-causing protozoa, and monitoring discharged wastewater for it is difficult.
Until now, there had been no direct genetic evidence linking colonial-era outbreaks in the Americas to strains circulating in the Old World.
As tick numbers show no sign of decreasing and the types of diseases they can spread to people keep increasing, a new initiative has been laun…
Industrial-scale chicken farming allowed strains that once circulated in wild birds to mix extensively in commercial poultry populations.
New Hampshire’s ticks are having a moment, prompting the state’s scientists to come together in hopes of better understanding, and combating, the problem. An $8 million grant from the National Science Foundation will support an investigation into how factors like climate, habitat, wildlife, and more affect the parasites and the diseases they spread, according to […]
The catalog builds on earlier versions published in 2001 and 2018.
Scientists pieced together the genetic history of Acinetobacter baumannii — a notoriously stubborn hospital pathogen — using samples dating back 50 years to the 1970s.