With falling vaccination rates and outbreaks that have caused more than 580 U.S. cases and at least two deaths, health ...

An insidious but lesser-known consequence of even a mild measles infection is that it kills the very cells that remember which pathogens the patient has previously fought and how those battles were ...

Mycobacteria are the world's most deadly bacteria --c ausing infectious diseases including tuberculosis (TB), which alone kills more than one million people each year. New drugs to fight these ...

Researchers found a protein that's essential for an enterovirus to enter human cells. Although not the infamous example—that ...

A new study has found that certain bacteria living in the nose may influence how likely someone is to get a COVID-19 infection. The research reveals that certain types of nasal bacteria can affect the ...

Even if a child or adult recovers from encephalitis from a measles infection, Garcia Carreno added, there is a 25% risk of ...

The immune system works to maintain homeostasis throughout the body. Various cell types and immune mechanisms work in concert ...

The virus enters its host and causes infection by attaching one of its spike proteins to a receptor on the surface of the host cell. In order to cause infection, the spike protein and receptor need to ...

Most serious measles cases come down to the virus’s effect on the lungs, but the virus is also capable of infecting the brain ...

They found that those who became infected had higher levels of gene expression for two key proteins — ACE2 and TMPRSS2. ACE2 allows the virus to enter nasal cells, while TMPRSS2 helps activate ...