Mobile phones can act as a “trojan horse” for pathogenic microorganisms, according to the authors of one research paper about germs on cellphones.

Mobile phones can act as a “trojan horse” for pathogenic microorganisms, according to the authors of one research paper about ...

Edited by Scott Hultgren, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO; received March 7, 2024; accepted January 27, 2025 ...

which resulted in increased exposure and risk of secondary infections caused especially by nosocomial pathogens and associated with a high mortality rate among COVID-19 patients (1). Immune system ...

Table 2. Laboratory simulations demonstrating the survival of pathogens on money.

These rings trap pathogens, ensuring that they don’t penetrate into deeper tissues. Superpowered skin Scientists have long known that neutrophils wage chemical warfare by releasing toxins to ...

Association of demographic and clinical variables with infection by MDR, MDR gram negatives and ESKAPE pathogens among patients admitted from the community (with community-acquired or ...

Agreement in the number of potentially pathogenic species was found 47 times, whereas a greater number of potential pathogens was found in aspiration specimens only twice. Twenty-five of the 102 ...

However, the single CRISPR-based technique does not detect pathogens at low levels without a preamplification step. Bashir's team created a CRISPR-based diagnostic test that bypasses that ...

To identify and stop the next potential pandemic, government disease detectives have been discreetly searching for viral pathogens in wastewater from airplanes. Experts are worried that these ...

The immune system responds to an infection by producing antibodies that recognize and bind to the cell surface of the pathogen, thus marking it as an intruder and triggering an immune response.