At least 1.27 million people died in 2019 due to drug-resistant bacterial infections, according to a new study on the global burden of antimicrobial resistance. The study, published Wednesday in the ...

Six bacterial antimicrobial-resistant hospital-onset infections have increased by a combined 20% since 2019, a CDC report found. The report compared infection rates for 2019 through 2022 for seven ...

A group of researchers looked at global data on deaths from bacterial infections, like E. coli and Staphylococcus. They found that 7.7. million, or nearly 14 percent, of all deaths in 2019 were a ...

In a retrospective study, researchers found a 2,200% increase in clinical Candida auris infections at Miami-based Jackson Health System between 2019 and 2022. The findings correspond with national ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare, communicable diseases continue to be a major global public health threat despite advances made in medicine and treatments for many illnesses. The uneven ...

The number of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) infections in Europe declined in 2019 slightly compared to 2018 but is higher than previous years, according to a new report. For 2019, 8,313 ...

A recent study published in Emerging Infectious Diseases evaluated latent tuberculosis (TB) infections (LTBIs) in the United States (US) during 2019-20. Study: Latent Tuberculosis Infection among ...

Adults with prepandemic respiratory conditions, including asthma, bronchitis, and recurrent upper respiratory infections, are significantly more likely to develop long COVID after a mild-to-moderate ...

In a study published Monday in The Lancet, a massive group of collaborators report the first global estimates of mortality rates from bacterial pathogens. The study found that in 2019, 7.7 million ...