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Science of Infectious Disease
An infectious disease can be defined as an illness due to a pathogen or its toxic product, which arises through transmission from an infected person, an infected animal, or a contaminated inanimate object to a susceptible host. There are several scientific practices in place to identify and/or treat an infectious disease.
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MAR 13, 2023Neuroscience
Many of us get a fever, feel fatigued, get depressed, experience insomnia or disturbed sleep, and withdraw socially when ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 01, 2023Earth & The Environment
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The CDC has issued an alert about a rise in extensively drug-resistant (XDR) shigellosis, which causes gastrointestinal ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 24, 2023Microbiology
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Two natural products can prevent SARS-CoV-2 from binding to the ACE2 receptor and infecting human cells.Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 04, 2023Health & Medicine
The pandemic virus SARS-CoV-2 continues to cause infections as it mutates into new variants. While the vaccines that are ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 01, 2023Microbiology
Even after decades of research, the cause of the most common form of dementia, Alzheimer's disease, is unclear. Evidence ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 30, 2023Neuroscience
Normally, the measles virus only infects immune and epithelial cells, leaving cells of the nervous system alone. But mea ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 17, 2023Microbiology
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Since 2021, a particularly persistent and deadly strain of avian influenza, highly pathogenic avian influenza, has been ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 15, 2023Microbiology
Hospital-acquired infections, or nosocomial infections are not usually present when people are admitted to a hospital, t ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 11, 2023Microbiology
A new study has shown that when people go to shopping malls, they take home more than new products, and they leave more ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 07, 2023Health & Medicine
Even mild cases of COVID-19 can lead to long COVID, in which symptoms linger for weeks, months, or longer, significantly ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 06, 2023Clinical & Molecular DX
Researchers at the University of British Colombia’s Life Sciences Institute have identified a compound that can po ...Written By: Kerry CharronDEC 31, 2022Microbiology
Some people might be looking to ditch the masks, while others have kept them on. New research has suggested that if you' ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 24, 2022Health & Medicine
After public protests, the Chinese government dramatically eased many restrictions related to COVID-19 earlier this mont ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 23, 2022Health & Medicine
While about 30,000 Americans are confirmed to have Lyme disease every year, the CDC has estimated that the number may be ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 19, 2022Health & Medicine
A new study suggests that Denisovan DNA helps Papuans with immune response.Written By: Brittany Kenyon-FlattDEC 18, 2022Immunology
Cytokines are crucial signaling molecules. When members of one family of cytokines called interleukin-1 (IL-1) are expre ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 16, 2022Microbiology
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has been studied in depth, and now, researchers have put all that knowledge ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 07, 2022Health & Medicine
Every so often, diseases that ravaged past populations pop up in movies or TV, and every now and again an archaeologist ...Written By: Sarah Hoffman
MAR 13, 2023
Neuroscience
Many of us get a fever, feel fatigued, get depressed, experience insomnia or disturbed sleep, and withdraw socially when
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 01, 2023
Earth & The Environment
In 2016 a relatively simple burial of two individuals was excavated at the site of Tel Megiddo. I say relative
...
Written By:
Sarah Hoffman
FEB 27, 2023
Microbiology
The CDC has issued an alert about a rise in extensively drug-resistant (XDR) shigellosis, which causes gastrointestinal
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 24, 2023
Microbiology
Scientists have found that a gene that has been previously identified in many animals and their associated microbes can
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 22, 2023
Microbiology
In a first, scientists have used bat cells to create bat induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), which can now be used t
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 17, 2023
Earth & The Environment
Plant pathogens are the unseen enemy. According to the Encyclopedia of Microbiology, plant disease is defined as a state
...
Written By:
Mandy Woods
FEB 13, 2023
Microbiology
An outbreak of Marburg virus has killed nine people and sickened at least sixteen others in Equatorial Guinea's firs
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 11, 2023
Microbiology
Two natural products can prevent SARS-CoV-2 from binding to the ACE2 receptor and infecting human cells.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 04, 2023
Health & Medicine
The pandemic virus SARS-CoV-2 continues to cause infections as it mutates into new variants. While the vaccines that are
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 01, 2023
Microbiology
Even after decades of research, the cause of the most common form of dementia, Alzheimer's disease, is unclear. Evidence
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 30, 2023
Neuroscience
Normally, the measles virus only infects immune and epithelial cells, leaving cells of the nervous system alone. But mea
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 17, 2023
Microbiology
Fungi that can cause lung infections are all over our environment. Recent research has highlighted how much fungal speci
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 15, 2023
Health & Medicine
Since 2021, a particularly persistent and deadly strain of avian influenza, highly pathogenic avian influenza, has been
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 15, 2023
Microbiology
Hospital-acquired infections, or nosocomial infections are not usually present when people are admitted to a hospital, t
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 11, 2023
Microbiology
A new study has shown that when people go to shopping malls, they take home more than new products, and they leave more
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 07, 2023
Health & Medicine
Even mild cases of COVID-19 can lead to long COVID, in which symptoms linger for weeks, months, or longer, significantly
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 06, 2023
Clinical & Molecular DX
Researchers at the University of British Colombia’s Life Sciences Institute have identified a compound that can po
...
Written By:
Kerry Charron
DEC 31, 2022
Microbiology
Some people might be looking to ditch the masks, while others have kept them on. New research has suggested that if you'
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 24, 2022
Health & Medicine
After public protests, the Chinese government dramatically eased many restrictions related to COVID-19 earlier this mont
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 23, 2022
Health & Medicine
While about 30,000 Americans are confirmed to have Lyme disease every year, the CDC has estimated that the number may be
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 19, 2022
Health & Medicine
A new study suggests that Denisovan DNA helps Papuans with immune response.
Written By:
Brittany Kenyon-Flatt
DEC 18, 2022
Immunology
Cytokines are crucial signaling molecules. When members of one family of cytokines called interleukin-1 (IL-1) are expre
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 16, 2022
Microbiology
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has been studied in depth, and now, researchers have put all that knowledge
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 07, 2022
Health & Medicine
Every so often, diseases that ravaged past populations pop up in movies or TV, and every now and again an archaeologist
...
Written By:
Sarah Hoffman