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During a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing recently, Under Secretary of State, Victoria Nuland was asked if Ukraine has chemical or biological weapons.  She replied, “Ukraine has [...]

Polymyxin E–Resistant Gram-Negative Bacteria in Tunisia and Neighboring Countries: Are There Commonalities? Universities and hospitals across northern Africa have just published a review of [...]

Recent findings from researchers at the American Phytopathological Society have demonstrated that the bacteria responsible for Citrus Greening disease (HLB or Huanglongbing), Candidatus [...]

Trana Discovery fully supports the appeal by Michelle McMurry-Heath, MD, PhD and Pres./CEO of Biotechnology Innovation Organization [BIO] to create a new business model for drug development with [...]

The world marks AIDS Day on December 1 to highlight the work done to eliminate the epidemic. The day is also observed to extend support to those who have to live with the life-threatening [...]

A study of 87,509 elderly patients from the Veterans Administration with positive blood cultures examined the number with multi-drug resistant bacteria.  The authors found that in older patients [...]

Recent U.S. hospital data from the last quarter of 2020 has shown a 34% increase in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) from the previous year. Some states have seen shocking [...]

The CDC study, published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology (ICHE), shows substantial increases nationally in HAI and select antibiotic-resistant (AR) infections in 2020 compared to [...]

Melioidosis is an infectious disease isolated to equatorial regions and particularly in southeast Asia.  It is caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei and is becoming resistant to traditional [...]

The Philippines are the 2nd largest exporter of bananas next to Ecuador and has seen a drastic decrease in banana production due to banana leaf wilt disease.  The pandemic of the TR4 strain [...]