Intestinal parasites are an important public health problem and affect mainly underdeveloped and developing countries, where there are poor sanitary and socioeconomic conditions, associated with ...

Cases of dysentery have consistently been on the rise in the Portland, Oregon area year-over-year since 2012, officials said.

The horrifying illness, which was common around 200 years ago, is linked to poor sanitation but became far more rare in recent years thanks to developments in public health ...

After hundreds of Canadians fell ill at a Mexican resort, experts warn that contaminated food and water can lead to serious illnesses.

Microbes or chemical contaminants may enter the food chain at any point from farm to fork, causing foodborne illnesses. Different factors such as an individual's susceptibility and a microbe’s ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has published a series of documents covering the relevance of a range of pathogens in water. The background documents will inform the revision of WHO guidelines ...

Colistin-resistant (Col-R) bacteria are steadily increasing, and are extremely difficult to treat. New drugs or therapies are urgently needed to treat infections caused by these pathogens. Combination ...

Evolutionary theory predicts that the lack of recombination and chromosomal re-assortment in strictly asexual organisms results in homologous chromosomes irreversibly accumulating mutations and thus ...

Eukarya, Archaea, and some Bacteria encode all or part of the essential mevalonate (MVA) metabolic pathway clinically modulated using statins. Curiously, two components of the MVA pathway are often ...