The need for new fast classification methods has become increasingly important. When a patient arrives at a medical center ...

For people with weakened immune systems, common molds lurking in the environment—in the soil, along damp walls or on a forgotten apple—can cause dangerous infections deep inside the body. These ...

Steve Schwarz underwent spinal surgery, only to later succumb to MRSA due to discontinuation of antibiotics at a care home.

Demisha Jennings, 32, visited the dentist to get a tooth pulled several years ago in Indiana but on returning home, she found ...

Many diseases can be spread through saliva alone, including viral and bacterial infections. Our saliva is naturally protective against disease spread. However, this protection can be compromised by ...

These situations include bacteremia and endocarditis ... [265] A stepwise diagnostic approach may also be developed, including detection of bacterial DNA (e.g., 16S rDNA), detection of DNA ...

A diagnostic medical sonographer could be answering the question "Is it a boy or a girl?" as well as a host of other life-changing medical questions with the help of ultrasound technology.

Infection risk remains a prominent clinical concern for patients with multiple myeloma (MM), even with the advent of modern, novel therapies.

Research in the Department ranges from the fundamental biology of infectious diseases to the development and application of new approaches to treatment. The Department of Infectious Disease is ...

At present the streptococcus skin test is a useful empirical diagnostic tool. Seventy-four of 77 patients with undoubted bacterial endocarditis have had negative beta-hemolytic streptococcus skin ...

Injection drug use is a relatively infrequent cause of endocarditis ... the diagnosis and assess for cardiac complications such as intracardiac abscesses and paravalvular extension of infection.