An Arizona resident has died from pneumonic plague, a rare but highly dangerous lung infection, Coconino County health officials confirmed on Friday. This incident marks the first death from the ...

Officials said the resident died from pneumonic plague, a severe lung infection. The risk to the public remains low.

Hepatitis A infection requires understanding symptoms, prevention strategies, and recovery management for effective treatment and lifelong immunity development.

The recent replacement of the entire CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) raises serious public health ...

The vagina has been regarded as a crucial route for drug delivery. Despite the wide range of available vaginal dosage forms for vaginal infection control, poor drug absorptivity remains a significant ...

Infection prevention and control (IPC) plays an important role in providing quality healthcare. IPC including prevention of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), is an important factor in determining safety ...

According to Dr. Kang, the exact proper handwashing steps are: Lather well and wash for at least 20 seconds, including the ...

Surveillance data collected over a 10-year period showed a substantial increase in the incidence of invasive GAS disease among US patients across 10 states.

As I head into my 25th year of working as a clinical infectious diseases pharmacist, one of the most important working relationships of my career is with the infection prevention department.

Introduction A gap exists in the literature regarding dose–response associations of objectively assessed housing quality measures, particularly dampness and mould, with hospitalisation for acute ...

Future Microbiol. 2014;9(4):487-495. Surgical site infections following insertion and the early postoperative period, however, are just one aspect of infection prevention related to feeding tubes ...