In a case report published in the New England Journal of Medicine, doctors explain how they figured out the source of her ...

A WOMAN who complained of a burning sensation in her feet after returning home from a trip abroad was revealed to have parasitic worms in her brain. The 30-year-old woman had just returned from a ...

Paragonimiasis is caused by infection with an organism that is endemic to Asia and Africa, and this patient could have been exposed if she ate crab sushi ... migrate to the lungs, where they ...

A young American woman who travelled to Thailand, Japan, and Hawaii complained of a severe burning sensation in her feet, ...

Her symptoms began after visiting Thailand, Japan and Hawaii, where she ate sushi and salad and swam in the ocean ...

A large team of surgeons and organ transplant researchers affiliated with multiple institutions across the U.S. has found an association between lung transplant patients who become infected with the ...

One of the team members noticed that many patients who experienced lung rejection also had a P. aeruginosa infection. The team wondered if such infections played a role in transplant rejections.

Lung transplant recipients are highly susceptible to infection, the researchers noted, and P. aeruginosa is a leading cause of bacterial pneumonia for them. Indeed, it was the most frequently ...

"Bacterial and viral infections can also cause genetic mutations and chronic inflammation, which contribute to the development of cancer." In some cases, lung cancer can develop seemingly at ...

A team of environmental scientists at Duke University, working with colleagues from the University of New South Wales, the ...

So, what makes this bout of pneumonia – a severe lung infection – so “complex”? And how will it be treated? Pneumonia is a serious infection that fills the lungs with liquid or pus and can ...