A recent study revealed that an increasing number of Americans under 50 are currently hospitalised with a rare colon ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Compared with other maternal infections, intestinal infection and genitourinary tract infection increased the ...

Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a ubiquitous herpesvirus that, while often latent in the general population, can become reactivated in individuals with compromised immune systems. Inflammatory bowel disease ...

Endocannabinoids, signaling molecules produced in the body that share features with chemicals found in marijuana, can shut down genes needed for some pathogenic intestinal bacteria to colonize, ...

Bacteria use multiple defense mechanisms to survive in the host body. Shigella bacteria that cause colitis disable multiple ...

Working on the premise that an intestinal infection may contribute to the development of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) by damaging the gut nervous system, scientists at the Rockefeller University ...

Umeå University researchers have found that among the many factors that shape the intestinal microbiota composition, diet has a much stronger impact than defensins, which are intestinal defense ...

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv preprint* server, researchers examined the impact of helminth infection on the effectiveness of a severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) ...