Fecal contamination of clean water can be detected via microbial source tracking, a method that identifies specific ...
The presence of human waste in sewage overflow or stormwater runoff that ultimately finds its way into rivers and lakes is a ...
The presence of human waste in sewage overflow or stormwater runoffs that ultimately find their way into rivers and lakes is ...
Within the human digestive tract are trillions of bacteria from thousands of different species. These bacteria form ...
Dangerous strains of E. coli bacteria can infiltrate the food supply through many different routes, experts explain.
Researchers at the John Innes Centre have discovered that the capacity of bacteria to spread disease in plants is more extensive than known before. Using Pseudomonas syringae, they found that the ...
In a new study, Weizmann Institute of Science researchers reveal a bacterial immune system that thwarts the phages’ plot by attaching a small protein molecule to their tails. The components of this ...
"Mirror bacteria" could evade people's immune systems, they suggest, causing deadly infections. Such infections could also ...
The capacity of bacteria to spread disease across the Plant Kingdom may be much more widespread than previously suspected, according to new analysis.
Parasites that cause the deadly illness known as sleeping sickness can spread beyond their native Africa as a result of mutations to key genes, a study shows.