These bacteria have evolved the ability to resist treatment with antibiotics, and it's making them more deadly and harder to ...

A vaccine works by generating an immune response in the body against some kind of pathogen—a virus or bacteria or some other agent that causes disease. Normally when a pathogen invades the body ...

"The most basic thing you can study in bacteria is how they grow and divide, yet our study reveals that the TB pathogen is playing by a completely different set of rules compared to easier-to ...

Despite the popularity of this trade-off theory, other explanations for pathogen virulence exist, and only a handful of studies (including experimental work on rodent malaria, bacterial pathogens ...