The Atlanta VA Medical Center cleared a floor of patients after a Georgia veteran who died there this week tested positive ...

Bacteria that can cause Legionnaires' disease was detected in an ice machine at a state-run pediatric hospital in Canton.

Canadian researchers say a blood test measuring immune response to gut bacteria could help predict Crohn’s disease years before diagnosis.

Common gut bacteria use protein delivery systems to interact directly with human cells, reshaping how scientists view the microbiome.

By Vijay Kumar Malesu Digestive symptoms often appear years before tremor in Parkinson’s disease, and growing evidence ...

An international team of scientists reports that it has unraveled the genetic makeup of 47 strains of known and potential Lyme disease-causing bacteria. The say the work paves the way toward more ...

Scientists have recovered a genome of Treponema pallidum—the bacterium whose subspecies today are responsible for four ...

In A Nutshell Scientists discovered a 5,500-year-old form of the bacteria that causes syphilis in remains from Colombia, the ...

Dust storms from western India are carrying airborne bacteria, including pathogens linked to respiratory, skin, and ...

While much effort has focused on avoiding anthrax, history has also seen attempts to explore using the bacterial spores to ...