Re-emergence of agents whose incidence of disease had significantly declined in the past, but whose incidence of disease has reappeared. This class of diseases is known as re-emerging infectious ...

This interaction is likely to be a common phenomenon. Indeed, it is exemplified by the variety of infectious agents whose effects—harmful or otherwise—are determined by some other factor, presumably ...

Overall, 31.25% of the patients with IBD had an infectious agent detected in their stool sample, with the highest prevalence in patients with active CD (33.9%) and UC (28.9%) compared with ...

She contends that infectious agents called prions, which are behind diseases such as new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (“Mad Cow disease”), may be the most worrisome of all because they ...

Understanding how pathogens replicate, infect cells and evade the immune system may pave the way to treatments for both the old and newly emerging infectious diseases. Sticking around in airways ...

Infectious agents and their hosts interact in a complex manner, involving not only superficially apparent mechanisms, but also the signaling machinery that governs host cells responses.

worked for years to find the culprit, resulting in the discovery of the smallest known infectious agent, which he named a viroid. Spindle tuber disease, which was first identified in the 1920s ...