A differential diagnosis was difficult to make, as there were 19 varieties of the disease; infectious enterocolitis had a misdiagnosis rate of 22.9% before admission.

UC Davis infectious diseases experts George Thompson and Angel Desai are raising the alarm about the role new pesticides can play in building resistance to antifungal medical treatments.

A new AI tool to predict the spread of infectious disease outperforms existing state-of-the-art forecasting methods. The tool, created with federal support by researchers at Johns Hopkins and Duke ...

A team of scientists at NYU Abu Dhabi has developed a breakthrough paper-based diagnostic device that can detect COVID-19 and other infectious diseases in under 10 minutes, without the need for ...

The FDA recently granted orphan drug and rare pediatric disease designations to Infinant Health for a live biotherapeutic product to prevent necrotizing enterocolitis in preterm infants, the ...

Objective To understand why surgical decision-making in necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) is challenging and to explore what is required to optimise this. Design Three semi-structured in-person focus ...

A torrent of infectious diseases is erupting from melting ice. We shouldn’t freak out just yet As the world heats up, vast numbers of microbes frozen in vast amounts of ice are set to thaw. We ...

Climate change is creating new pathways for the spread of infectious diseases like brucellosis, tularemia, or E. coli in the Arctic, according to a broad international consortium of scientists ...

Deep funding cuts and widespread layoffs impact everything from local public health outreach to global disease surveillance, making us more vulnerable, experts warn.

Pathogens are constantly evolving to become resistant to treatment in the perpetual battle between humans and infectious diseases.

How can you know which infectious disease you have? Does it depend on the illness, the symptoms or the characteristics of the person who is ill?

The UK has bought 5 million doses of a vaccine to protect against bird flu.