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Explore how PCR diagnostics support timely detection, targeted treatment, and surveillance of gastrointestinal pathogens.

Advanced diagnostic testing methods empower scientists to swiftly and precisely detect STIs. 

Synthetic DNA can pose significant biosecurity risks. Experts call for more screening by providers and institutions to mitigate security concerns.

Nanopore sequencing platforms provide researchers the freedom to rapidly sequence long microbial nucleic acid fragments in the field. 

A rapid isothermal amplification technique enables pathogen identification and antibiotic resistance detection in low-resource settings.

The parasite appears to make infected wolves less risk-averse, potentially influencing the behavior of packs.

A study suggests that pathogens affecting other species can indirectly harm human health.

Immune defense genes in bacteria and archaea can identify viral proteins, a study finds, revealing similarities between the immune systems of prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms.

Of the pathogens known to have infected humans, more than half may cause more widespread disease as a result of rising temperatures, precipitation changes, or other climate-related factors, a study finds.

Dozens of researchers, including myself, worked for years to uncover that swine flu had leapt to humans from a pig in Mexico in 2009. We learned a lot about influenza evolution, pig farming, and outbreak risk along the way.

The pathogen known as swine flu evolved in pigs in Mexico following imports of the livestock from the US and Europe.

A new, more diverse group of researchers is being appointed take over the stalled investigation.

In a first, patients who hadn’t been treated with antifungals were found to carry Candida auris impervious to all three available classes of the drugs.

A contaminated ham put bacteriologist Émile Pierre-Marie van Ermengem on the path to discovering the microbe that produces botulinum toxin.

In Northern California, the proportion of ticks infected with the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi was the same in shrubland along beaches as in woodland habitats.

When conservationists relocate species, they don’t always account for the pathogens hitching a ride, and the consequences of introducing them to a new environment.

Cammie Lesser describes her research developing designer probiotics to deliver protein-based therapeutics to the gut.

Scientists suspect the gall-forming protist Maullinia hitches a ride on kelp rafts to reach new host populations at far-flung sites.

Host vouchering, the practice of preserving species known to harbor infectious diseases, can be used to help determine a pathogen’s source, scientists say.