It could enable doctors to diagnose infections such as pneumonia much quicker - without the need for invasive blood tests.

Infectious diseases are a major cause of death worldwide, and diagnosing bacterial infections remains a challenge in medicine ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the University of California, San Francisco used a naturally occurring carbon isotope and exhaled CO(2) to catch bacterial infections. MEMPHIS, ...

A revolutionary new medical test highlighted in a study in Nature Medicine could transform infection diagnostics forever. This new metagenomic sequencing test can detect a broad range of ...

Two international studies, a clinical trial led by the University of Oxford and University of Utrecht, and a qualitative ...

With Covid-19 cases up across the country, many people are once again relying on home tests to guide decisions about going to work and sending their kids to school and other activities. A lot of those ...

Chronic hepatitis D coinfection affects an estimated 12 million people globally, with higher prevalence in low-income and ...

A cutting-edge genetic test can rapidly detect and identify almost any kind of disease-causing microorganism in the human body, whether it's a virus, bacteria, fungus or parasite, researchers say.

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Metabolites in tissue fluid offer important clues that could help predict infection risk among women who undergo breast ...

Chronic hepatitis D virus (HDV) coinfection in people with chronic hepatitis B is associated with rapid progression to liver ...