Most tuberculosis tests are conducted on sputum samples. The difficulty with this is that many people, particularly children ...

A novel breath test that identifies bacterial infections may offer clinicians a rapid, non-invasive diagnostic and monitoring tool.

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are one of the most common bacterial infections worldwide, yet their impact is often underestimated. Every year, millions suffer from the burning pain and discomfort of ...

Vaginitis, which incudes yeast infections and bacterial vaginosis, affects up to 75% of women at least once in their lives, ...

Recent discoveries are helping scientists face this challenge in innovative ways. Studies have found that nearly a quarter of drugs that aren’t normally prescribed as antibiotics, such as medications ...

The Stool Ultra test identified additional cases that were not detected by TB-LAM, Ultra in sputum or bacterial culture. "In these patients, the sensitivity of standard tests is much lower than in the ...

Researchers engineered bacteria to produce spectral pigments in response to environmental triggers. Using hyperspectral ...

A new study by researchers at George Washington University has found that certain bacteria living in the nose may influence ...

Research on the gut microbiome has focused mainly on bacteria, but bacteriophages and fungi play critical roles as well, with significant influences on health and disease.

A scientist who was working on plague-causing bacteria caught the disease despite using weakened strains that were deemed ...