Salivary Infection: Causes The most common causes of acute salivary gland infections are bacteria, especially Staphylococcus aureus, or staph. Viruses and fungi can also cause infection in the glands.

Bacillus subtilis is a major workhorse for enzyme production in industrially relevant quantities. Compared to mammalian-based expression systems, B. subtilis presents intrinsic advantages, such as ...

C reactive protein (CRP), a marker for the presence of an inflammatory process, is the most extensively studied marker for distinguishing bacterial from non-bacterial infections in febrile patients. A ...

But because fecal transplant addresses the root cause of the infection, researchers suspected it might be effective as a front-line treatment for C. difficile.

Monsoon Infection: Most bacterial and viral infections are contagious and spread fast, especially during the rainy season—most people are unaware that different types of pathogens—bacteria and viruses ...

Blujepa: Most recently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Blujepa (gepotidacin), the first of a new class of drugs for the treatment of uncomplicated urinary tract infections caused ...

GoFundMe screengrab A 2-year-old girl contracted E. coli at an Oklahoma lake and is now fighting for her life as complications from the infection takes its toll on her body, her family says.

Though the vaccine may be able to tackle the most serious fungal infections, the researchers plan to first test it out in humans as a vaccine against recurrent vulvovaginal candidiasis (RVVC).

1. A staph infection Technically, any kind of bacteria can cause a belly button infection, Jules Lipoff, MD, a Philadelphia-based dermatologist and clinical associate professor (adjunct) at the ...

Bacillus subtilis produces the antibiotic anticapsin as an l-Ala-l-anticapsin dipeptide precursor known as bacilysin, whose synthesis is encoded by the bacA−D genes and the adjacent ywfGH genes. To ...

Former Bellator MMA and ONE Championship welterweight kingpin, Ben Askren is reportedly in critical condition tonight as he battles a severe staph infection, with his wife, Amy confirming the ...

A Texas woman died from an infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba days after she cleaned her sinuses using tap water, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention case report.