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Molecular Epidemiology
Molecular Epidemiology: a branch of epidemiology and medical science that focuses on the contribution of potential genetic and environmental risk factors, identified at the molecular level, to the etiology, distribution and prevention of disease within families and across populations.
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JUN 09, 2025Genetics & Genomics
Bubonic plague has caused the deadliest pandemic in history: The Black Death, which killed as many as 50% of affected po ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 04, 2025Clinical & Molecular DX
Babesiosis is a tick-borne disease that is caused by parasites, which infect red blood cells. The symptoms can present i ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 13, 2025Clinical & Molecular DX
There are many symptoms that are common to a wide variety of diseases, like fever, which can indicate an infection, auto ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 07, 2025Clinical & Molecular DX
New technologies like wastewater surveillance have enabled public health officials to monitor the spread of infectious d ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 11, 2024Clinical & Molecular DX
The World Health Organization is investigating a mysterious illness now known as Disease X, which has sickened hundreds ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 24, 2024Clinical & Molecular DX
Avian flu, particularly the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1, have caused huge amounts of wild and agricultural bi ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 19, 2024Clinical & Molecular DX
The CDC and other officials in several US states are currently investigating a multistate outbreak of severe E coli infe ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 28, 2024Genetics & Genomics
Oropouche virus (OROV) is transmitted by infected midges and some types of mosquitoesWritten By: Carmen LeitchAUG 07, 2024Clinical & Molecular DX
Klebsiella pneumoniae (K. pneumoniae) is a common Gram-negative bacterium. They can live almost anywhere, including wate ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 28, 2024Microbiology
Highly pathogenic avian influenza could once only be caught from an infected bird. But it seems the virus can now move f ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 03, 2024Earth & The Environment
Frogs and toads around the world have been devastated by Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), a fungus that causes the d ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 28, 2024Clinical & Molecular DX
Lyme disease occurs when someone is bitten by a deer tick that is carrying pathogenic bacteria called Borrelia burgdorfe ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 12, 2024Cancer
Cervical cancer incidence rates in the United States declined substantially between the 1970s and 2000s, due in part to ...Written By: Katie KokolusJAN 18, 2024Clinical & Molecular DX
Sewage can be used to track the spread of diseases, which many people learned about during the COVID-19 pandemic. But th ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 11, 2024Cancer
A commonly used biopsy technique, known as a percutaneous or needle biopsy, involves inserting a small needle under the ...Written By: Katie KokolusDEC 27, 2023Clinical & Molecular DX
Home testing can be a very convenient way for people to learn more about their health, particularly when the alternative ...Written By: Carmen LeitchOCT 27, 2023Cell & Molecular Biology
Since the emergence of the pandemic virus SARS-CoV-2, researchers have investigated whether the virus is able to infect ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 21, 2023Microbiology
Researchers have discovered that brown rats living near Atlanta, Georgia are carrying a parasite called rat lungworm, or ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 20, 2023Clinical & Molecular DX
Hospitals are supposed to help sick people get healthy, but unfortunately, many hospitalized patients become sick with i ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 05, 2023Cell & Molecular Biology
In recent years, a strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza, H5N1, has been devastating bird populations around the w ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 04, 2023Cancer
Today, we commemorate Labor Day, a holiday recognizing the American workforce's contributions toward the United Stat ...Written By: Katie KokolusJUN 27, 2023Clinical & Molecular DX
Tuberculosis is still a major health problem in much of the world. It was the primary cause of death from an infectious ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 22, 2023Cannabis Sciences
A recent study published in the International Journal of Drug Policy examines a potential connection between the passage ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUN 06, 2023Cell & Molecular Biology
According to the 2010 US Census, there were 53,364 centenarians in the US, so around 1.73 of every 10,000 Americans live ...Written By: Carmen Leitch
JUN 09, 2025
Genetics & Genomics
Bubonic plague has caused the deadliest pandemic in history: The Black Death, which killed as many as 50% of affected po
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 04, 2025
Clinical & Molecular DX
Babesiosis is a tick-borne disease that is caused by parasites, which infect red blood cells. The symptoms can present i
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 13, 2025
Clinical & Molecular DX
There are many symptoms that are common to a wide variety of diseases, like fever, which can indicate an infection, auto
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 07, 2025
Clinical & Molecular DX
New technologies like wastewater surveillance have enabled public health officials to monitor the spread of infectious d
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 11, 2024
Clinical & Molecular DX
The World Health Organization is investigating a mysterious illness now known as Disease X, which has sickened hundreds
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 24, 2024
Clinical & Molecular DX
Avian flu, particularly the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1, have caused huge amounts of wild and agricultural bi
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 19, 2024
Clinical & Molecular DX
The CDC and other officials in several US states are currently investigating a multistate outbreak of severe E coli infe
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 28, 2024
Genetics & Genomics
Oropouche virus (OROV) is transmitted by infected midges and some types of mosquitoes
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 07, 2024
Clinical & Molecular DX
Klebsiella pneumoniae (K. pneumoniae) is a common Gram-negative bacterium. They can live almost anywhere, including wate
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 28, 2024
Microbiology
Highly pathogenic avian influenza could once only be caught from an infected bird. But it seems the virus can now move f
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 03, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Frogs and toads around the world have been devastated by Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), a fungus that causes the d
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 28, 2024
Clinical & Molecular DX
Lyme disease occurs when someone is bitten by a deer tick that is carrying pathogenic bacteria called Borrelia burgdorfe
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 12, 2024
Cancer
Cervical cancer incidence rates in the United States declined substantially between the 1970s and 2000s, due in part to
...
Written By:
Katie Kokolus
JAN 18, 2024
Clinical & Molecular DX
Sewage can be used to track the spread of diseases, which many people learned about during the COVID-19 pandemic. But th
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 11, 2024
Cancer
A commonly used biopsy technique, known as a percutaneous or needle biopsy, involves inserting a small needle under the
...
Written By:
Katie Kokolus
DEC 27, 2023
Clinical & Molecular DX
Home testing can be a very convenient way for people to learn more about their health, particularly when the alternative
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 27, 2023
Cell & Molecular Biology
Since the emergence of the pandemic virus SARS-CoV-2, researchers have investigated whether the virus is able to infect
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 21, 2023
Microbiology
Researchers have discovered that brown rats living near Atlanta, Georgia are carrying a parasite called rat lungworm, or
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 20, 2023
Clinical & Molecular DX
Hospitals are supposed to help sick people get healthy, but unfortunately, many hospitalized patients become sick with i
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 05, 2023
Cell & Molecular Biology
In recent years, a strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza, H5N1, has been devastating bird populations around the w
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 04, 2023
Cancer
Today, we commemorate Labor Day, a holiday recognizing the American workforce's contributions toward the United Stat
...
Written By:
Katie Kokolus
JUN 27, 2023
Clinical & Molecular DX
Tuberculosis is still a major health problem in much of the world. It was the primary cause of death from an infectious
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 22, 2023
Cannabis Sciences
A recent study published in the International Journal of Drug Policy examines a potential connection between the passage
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUN 06, 2023
Cell & Molecular Biology
According to the 2010 US Census, there were 53,364 centenarians in the US, so around 1.73 of every 10,000 Americans live
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch