Blocking a key protein found in Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes -- the principal vector for malaria transmission to humans in Africa -- could thwart infection with malaria parasites and thus prevent them ...

Infectious disease is the cause of a good deal of morbidity and mortality among individuals in the community and hospitals. While much of it is sporadic and isolated, most infections tend to spread, ...

Diseases rely on living organisms to survive and move between hosts via various contamination methods, such as airborne, contact, and liquid. Stopping infections might seem impossible, but it is quite ...

Vaccination and boosting, especially when recent, helped to limit the spread of COVID-19 in California prisons during the first Omicron wave, according to an analysis by researchers at UC San ...

The following article was originally published in Preventing Infection in Ambulatory Care, the quarterly e-publication from the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology ...

We interviewed 224 index patients who were 7 to 19 years of age and for whom there was evidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection on the basis of molecular or antigen laboratory testing. A total of 198 of these ...