Diseases caused by pathogens are called communicable diseases. This means the disease can be transferred from an infected organism to another organism. There are other types of disease which ...

More than 50 people have died in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, most within 48 hours of the onset of symptoms. Initial ...

Bacteria, viruses, and other microorganisms can change over time and develop a resistance to the drugs used to treat diseases caused by the pathogens. Therefore, drugs that were effective in the past ...

They could be caused by a pathogen or by something else. Other diagnostic tests are required in order to be sure it is being caused by a pathogen, and if so by which pathogen.

The authors found the same mechanism azoles killing pathogen cells in the rice-blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae. The disease caused by this fungus kills up to 30% of rice, an essential food crop ...

The drug did not inhibit bacterial growth in the lab even though it staved off disease in plants, suggesting that it doesn’t kill bacteria like an antibiotic ... are ideal as they may be less likely ...

DARO, a Lincoln-based company, wants to change how farmers track disease in pigs. The startup has received over $1 million to ...

Adjunctive inhaled antibiotics may be considered for very resistant pathogens and for patients ... from the American Thoracic Society/Infectious Disease Society of America guidelines [3].

The Massachusetts State Department of Health is investigating a case of Legionnaires’ disease at Beth Israel Deaconess ...