Chronic lung diseases are often accelerated and exacerbated by polymicrobial infections. An international study team led by MedUni Vienna has identified two types of these so-called dysbioses in ...

When I was a child, I became accustomed to ear infections. At least once a year, I would feel the telltale symptoms: pressure, the uncanny feeling of being underwater when I tried to swallow, and ...

You’ve heard of long Covid, a condition in which the acute infection subsides but troubling symptoms persist. Less well known is chronic Covid: The virus just doesn’t leave, sometimes staying in ...

Schlesinger is a physician-scientist and professor, president, and CEO of Texas Biomedical Research Institute, a nonprofit research organization in San Antonio, Texas. The connection between infection ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have identified the cellular mechanisms that cause immune cells to differentiate and ultimately lose function during viral infection, findings that could improve ...

A new study from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) has revealed that long-term Salmonella infections severely damage ...

Researchers at the Monash University Biomedicine Discovery Institute have identified a previously unknown type of immune system memory B cell (MBC) that can cause poor antibody responses in chronic ...

Older women with recurrent urinary tract infections are increasingly trapped in a cycle where the very bacteria living in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Having a chronic respiratory infection in addition to bronchiectasis heightened the risk for an exacerbation and ...

In patients with chronic hepatitis B infection, bepirovirsen achieves significantly higher rates of functional cure than placebo after discontinuation of nucleoside or nucleotide analog therapy.

A small study of older adults in Iberia suggests that infection with the common parasite Toxoplasma may be linked to 'inflammaging' and frailty in older adults. Older people who have had chronic ...

Danni-Lea Sandland struggled with lifelong chronic thrush infections that caused severe pain and social stigma She and her son were diagnosed with STAT-1 gain of function, a rare immune disorder with ...