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Public health officials warned of an ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Long Beach, California, prompting a declaration of a health emergency. They estimate 170 people have been exposed, with 9 [...]

Antibiotics play a crucial role in modern medicine, helping to treat complications arising from cancer treatments, joint replacements, dialysis, organ transplants, cesarean sections, and many [...]

Current TB therapy requires many months of treatment with complicated medication regimens that tend to cause side effects, often leading to incomplete treatment and poor outcomes. [...]

The breakthrough mRNA technology that underpins the world’s first approved COVID-19 vaccines has now emerged as a critical element of the biopharmaceutical pipeline, extending from cancer [...]

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control has issued a risk assessment report regarding the emergence of Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae ST23 carrying carbapenemase genes in [...]

This study explores the molecular epidemiology of Streptococcus suis, a zoonotic pathogen that has limited documentation in Europe. The researchers utilize molecular techniques to examine strains [...]

Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis that primarily affects the lungs. It is a global health problem, with nearly 10 million people falling ill with TB and 1.4 [...]

The recent surge in clinical cases of Candida auris in the United States, as highlighted by the CDC study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, is a cause for concern. The study shows [...]

The emergence of a new strain of gonorrhea in Japan that is resistant to all available antibiotics is a concerning development that has the potential to spread globally. The new strain, HO41, [...]

Two types of fungi, Aspergillus and Candida auris, are becoming harder to treat with the drugs commonly used for such infections. For more information, read here