A health care-associated infection (HAI) is an infection that a patient acquires while receiving treatment in a health care facility, such as a hospital, outpatient clinic, or long-term care center.

Cet été, trois personnes infectées par le virus du Nil occidental sont décédées en France. Le virus est présent en Suisse chez certains moustiques depuis 2022, avec une première contamination détectée ...

These are two lectures that form the Virchow Prize Lecture given by the authors in October, 2026. The first lecture was given ...

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In a typical year, scientists discover two or three viruses that have never been seen in people before. The number fluctuates, but the trend has been fairly steady since the 1960s. Most of these ...

Tracking microbes is challenging, particularly when there are coexisting strains of the same species within metagenomic data. However, overcoming that challenge is important for inferring transmission ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Another study has shown that the worldwide trade of wild animals increases the spread of disease between wildlife and humans. The new research ...

The research, published on April 24th, 2026, in Nature Microbiology, describes how the new tool, called TRAnsmision Clustering of Strains (TRACS), uses genomics to distinguish between closely related ...

An intestinal pathogen reshapes the gut environment to fuel its own colonization and cause diseases, a multi-institutional team including researchers at Vanderbilt Health has discovered. The ...

Hedgehogs, elephants, pangolins, bears or fennec foxes: many wild species are sold as pets, hunting trophies, for traditional medicine, biomedical research, or for their meat or fur. These practices, ...

Decades of data reveal that animals involved in the wildlife trade—from pet sales to meat markets to illegal poaching—are much more likely to carry pathogens that can infect humans The wildlife trade ...