When our body is attacked by a pathogen, the pathogen has to find ways to evade our immune system and invade our cells to cause infection and illness. Reporting in Cell, researchers have now ...

Kathleen Abadie was funded by a NSF (National Science Foundation) Graduate Research Fellowships. She performed this research in affiliation with the University of Washington Department of ...

FORT DETRICK, Md. – Researchers at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases are testing a promising new biological threat detection method in high-fidelity training scenarios, ...

Vaccines are an important part of medical care because they can protect you from future illness or can make the severity of the illness much less serious. There are six types. Vaccination is the ...

Bloodstream infections (BSIs) can be uniquely challenging in trauma victims who are affected by burn and blast injuries—and this is particularly true for fungal infections. DARPA’s (Defense Advanced ...

An overview of how specialty laboratories use integrated scientific approaches to deliver high-quality infectious disease ...