Lyme disease, a disease transmitted when deer ticks feed on infected animals like deer and rodents, and then bite humans, impacts nearly half a million individuals in the U.S. annually.

Piperacillin, an antibiotic in the same class as penicillin, effectively cured mice of Lyme disease at 100-times less than the effective dose of doxycycline, the current gold standard treatment. At ...

Cases of group A streptococcus (GAS) have been on the rise in the past decade. The bacteria can cause a range of diseases ...

Strep infections are most well known for causing strep throat, which can be treated with antibiotics. But this type of ...

Substantially elevated GAS incidence rates seen in people experiencing homelessness, people who inject drugs, long-term care facility residents ...

The parents of a baby boy who died from a treatable bacterial infection say they are working to help others avoid a similar ...

Bacteria, unicellular organisms that don't have an organized nucleus or chlorophyll, have been detected in water along Texas ...

UPMC Children’s Community Pediatrics is seeing an increase in cases viral sore throats, the flu, a stomach bug, allergies and ...

Substantially elevated GAS incidence rates seen in people experiencing homelessness, people who inject drugs, long-term care facility residents.

Prior to that, rates of invasive strep had been stable for 17 years. Invasive group A strep occurs when bacteria spread to areas of the body that are normally germ-free, such as the lungs or ...

Learn why 3 nasty infections keep bouncing back stronger, from immune challenges to environmental factors, and how they defy ...