Microbiology & Infectious Diseases

Inflammatory and nutritional biomarkers, including vitamin D and potassium, were linked to COVID-19 susceptibility in an Iranian case control study.

New postoperative spine infection criteria standardize diagnosis across six domains, and a microbiology standalone criterion today.

An IDSA 2025 guideline favors shorter antibiotic duration for complicated UTI when patients improve and respond well with active therapy.

People with HIV on antiretroviral therapy (ART) still face elevated risks of community-acquired pneumonia and herpes zoster.

The prevalence and current type mix of genital HSV infections worldwide call for new prevention and treatment approaches, including polyfunctional antibodies, vaccines, and gene-editing techniques.

Diabetes mellitus in patients with tuberculosis was not linked to higher household infection and was associated with fewer incident tuberculosis cases over 12 months.

Lyme borreliosis guidelines map the full spectrum of clinical manifestations from erythema migrans to neuroborreliosis.

Antemortem human rabies testing detects infection when sample types are collected across the course of illness.