Some things just go together in your belly: peanut butter and jelly, salt and pepper, bacteria and bacteria-eating viruses.

A study published in Frontiers explores the microbial diversity within hospital sink drains across multiple wards over a year ...

Scientists also select culture media components and growth conditions in the laboratory to meet bacterial energy. For example, many bacteria derive energy from organic compounds such as carbohydrates, ...

Stanford University researchers report that ciprofloxacin use drives persistent antibiotic resistance in human gut bacteria, ...

Our research is the first complete example of how mucus is broken down by this bacterial species. It’s important to understand this process, as it’s key in the way our microbes interact with ...

Some of the best studied examples of bacterial manipulation are shown below. Listeria gets its host to build it an actin tail Some intracellular bacteria use the host cell’s actin supplies to build ...

In the fight against bacterial pathogens ... be particularly important in the case of organ transplantations, for example, in which patients have to take immunosuppressant medications.

for example, tend to increase following storm flooding. Wind can play a role in disease travel as much as water does. "The sheer force of the winds can disperse pathogenic bacteria, viruses and ...