A research team at Leibniz-HKI has described a new enzyme that renders the highly toxic molecule malleicyprol harmless.

The disease best known to health professionals is cat scratch disease, caused by Bartonella henselae. It's important to understand the real prevalence of these diseases, especially in isolated regions ...

The Florida Department of Health - Orange County has confirmed that it is investigating a reported outbreak of Legionnaires' Disease.

Lyme disease is an infectious disease caused by borrelia burgdorferi, a bacterial species that can spread to people and animals from the bite of a deer tick—also called a black-legged tick—carrying ...

Legionnaires' disease cases in Florida hit a 10-year high in November. Here's a look at where cases are the highest.

The outbreak blamed on "gym exposure" is relatively small, but it has helped push cases tied to the Legionella bacteria to a ...

In recent years, quantitative real-time PCR tests have been extensively developed in clinical microbiology laboratories for routine diagnosis of infectious diseases, particularly bacterial diseases.

In recent years, a growing number of scientific studies have backed an alarming hypothesis: Alzheimer's disease isn't just a disease, it's an infection. One such study, published in 2019, suggested ...