This guide includes an overview of practices for the prevention and management of sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections (STBBI) by healthcare professionals practicing in public health or ...

Dermatologist Julie Russak, MD, explains the risks involved with tweezing or plucking nose hair—and how you can safely remove ...

Parsek and Singh 80 propose four criteria for defining a biofilm aetiology of an infection: the pathogenic bacteria are surface associated or adherent to a substratum; direct examination reveals ...

A tooth infection, or a tooth abscess, is a collection of pus and bacteria that forms inside the tooth or gum. To reduce the risk of complications, a person should seek treatment for a tooth ...

Key Laboratory of Optic-electric Sensing and Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, ...

Correction & clarification: This story has been updated to correct when the outbreak began. It’s January 2024. Health officials in Kansas have reported a tuberculosis outbreak in the ...

In the quest to take the “forever” out of “forever chemicals,” bacteria might be our ally. Most remediation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) involves adsorbing and trapping them, but ...

The researchers identified 135 gut microbe species that are commonly found in the absence of Enterobacteriaceae, likely protecting against infection. Notable amongst the protective gut species are a ...

Lab-confirmed cases of a highly contagious bacterial infection increased sharply last year on Vancouver Island, particularly among the unhoused population. Shigellosis is an intestinal illness ...

A team has identified a strain of bacteria that can break down and transform at least three types of PFAS, and, perhaps even more crucially, some of the toxic byproducts of the bond-breaking process.

"So we're trying to make space so people can access the washroom." The bacterial infection, one of the main causes of dysentery, spreads easily from person to person through an infected person's ...

The problem is that infections they cause must be treated with special antibiotics from the "reserve" list. But the more often doctors prescribe these, the quicker bacteria adapt, making those ...