microbiology, infectious disease

Evidence thus far shows that pregnant people infected with SARS-CoV-2 are at higher risk for severe disease and death, as well as complications in their pregnancies.

Analyses suggest the virus has been silently spreading in nearby counties since May.

Here’s what we know so far about a new virus detected in eastern China.

Scientists say they have finally figured out why some people with severe malaria end up with dangerous hypoglycemia, also reporting that the condition starves the parasite into changing tactics from virulence to transmission.

Multiple lines of evidence contradict the idea that the disease came to Europe via trans-Atlantic exchange.

Preliminary testing indicates that the two people died from the Ebola-like virus, the World Health Organization says.

Flavivirus infections alter the skin microbiome of mice to increase the production of a sweet-smelling compound that attracts the viruses’ insect vectors, a study finds.

People who were vaccinated at least six months prior to infection had the lowest risk of lasting symptoms in a UK study.

Genetic testing of people who died in Kyrgyzstan eight years before plague reached Europe reveals an ancient strain of the bacterium Yersinia pestis.

Experts are scrambling to understand clusters of the normally rare disease that have been reported in Europe and North America in the last month.

Known as SLiMs, these stretches of up to 10 amino acids play notable roles in cell biology, including responses to viral invasion.

Only recently appreciated as critical components of cellular functions, unstructured stretches of amino acids called SLiMs are key to viral-host interactions.

Southern Australia has recorded its first-ever cases of the disease in an outbreak that has so far killed three people.