A new study published in the American Journal of Infection Control demonstrates the use of a simple pre-surgical infection prevention protocol to prevent dangerous post-surgical infections.

Panel A shows the structure of HDV, which shares the hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) envelope with hepatitis B virus. The virion contains a single-stranded, circular RNA genome of approximately ...

Avian influenza can jump species from birds to humans, a fact that arouses concern for serious illness and broader human ...

4 Guangdong Second Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital (Guangdong Province Enginering Technology Research Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine), Guangzhou, China 5 The fifth Clinical Medical ...

Dengue virus (DENV) is a flavivirus transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, endemic in >100 countries. Climate change is expanding its range to temperate regions. Liver injury is common, ranging from mild ...

One of the most common health care-associated infections spreads within intensive care units (ICUs) more than three times more than previously thought, new research has found. IMPACT: The results ...

A study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases Journal has identified that the vast majority of neonatal (newborn infant ...

A recent study published in the journal of The Lancet eClinicalMedicine found that babies infected with the chikungunya virus ...

While it was previously thought that keratinocytes (skin cells) were only passive conductors that allow the rabies virus to ...