Respiratory infections are among the leading causes of illness and death in the elderly, driven by immune aging, chronic ...

For years scientists have puzzled over why the intracellular pathogen Salmonella is able to survive — and thrive — in human and animal tissues, even within otherwise hostile cells that are part of the ...

How do pathogens invade the lungs? Using human lung microtissues, a team has uncovered the strategy used by a dangerous pathogen. The bacterium targets specific lung cells and has developed a ...

Pathogens can create sticky situations. When microbes invade the body to cause an infection, often one of their first lines ...