A routine trip to the nail salon turned into a nightmare for Claudia Ruffin, a 27-year-old Sydney woman who contracted a ...

Scientists have created a genomic blueprint for Aeromonas bacteria, which can cause antibiotic-resistant diarrheal disease—with symptoms often misidentified as cholera—in humans and animals.

A high-fat diet can cause the intestinal lining to weaken, allowing live gut bacteria to travel directly to the brain in mice ...

Artificial intelligence is rapidly inventing new drugs for diseases from Parkinson's disease and antibiotic-resistant superbugs to rare lung conditions.

The gut bacterium Bacteroides fragilis has long presented researchers with a paradox. It has been associated with colorectal cancer, yet it also lives quite happily in most healthy people. A study by ...

Plant diseases rarely happen by accident. When problems show up in the garden, it is usually because the right conditions come together at the right time. Plant diseases can occur in any garden. In ...

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has warned Legionnaires' disease could be 'very serious' for some people in the UK, ...

According to the NHS, people get Legionnaires' disease by breathing in water droplets containing Legionella bacteria. The ...

Gut dysbiosis caused by a high-fat diet can allow bacteria to move from the gut to the brain in mice, according to a new ...

Scientists at Arizona State University have uncovered surprising new ways bacteria move, even without their usual whip-like propellers called flagella. In one study, E. coli and salmonella were found ...

Whooping cough is a highly contagious bacterial respiratory infection that causes severe coughing fits with a “whoop” sound ...

Eating a diet high in fat could have an unintended effect on the brain, according to researchers at Emory University in Georgia. A new study in mice that ate a fat-heavy diet showed that live bacteria ...