Capone and colleagues used molecular analysis techniques to study 10 ancient desiccated feces samples — also called ...

DNA analysis of 1,100 to 1,300-year-old dried human feces has provided insights into the pathogens that afflicted ancient ...

Pathogens and parasites, it turned out, were exceedingly common in people living in that area then. For example, the vast ...

DNA recovered from 1,000-year-old dried feces indicates that intestinal infections from pinworm or Shingella may have plagued ...

We present the complete genomes of two human pathogens, Bartonella quintana (1,581,384 bp) and Bartonella henselae (1,931,047 bp). The two pathogens maintain several similarities in being transmitted ...

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 ...

A new way to map the spread and evolution of pathogens, and their responses to vaccines and antibiotics, will provide key insights to help predict and prevent future outbreaks. The approach combines a ...

A wave carrying plastic washes up in Thailand. For microbes in the ocean, floating plastic is a new potential ecosystem. And those microbes include pathogens that can make people sick. Mladen Antonov ...

DNA from a new Bartonella bacterium has been detected in sand flies in the Brazilian Amazon, similar to the strains that ...

Our bodies host a variety of microorganisms, and the microbial communities in and on our bodies have to maintain the right balances among their members, or problems can arise. This includes the ...

It has long been known that bacterial pathogens are becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics. However, common ...

We might be passing our illnesses to our pets more than we think, scientists have found. Pets that have close contact with their owners, including sharing a bed, snuggling and eating in the same areas ...