Microbiology & Infectious Diseases

Acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections (ABSSSI) can require long periods of antibiotic therapy. If an ABSSSI…

Gavin Barlow, Hull York Medical School, UK, spoke with the EMJ about risk factors for the bacterial infection cellulitis…

Zika virus is associated with central nervous system involvement and a congenital syndrome following Zika infection in pregnancy…

Urinary tract infection (UTI) in children is one of the most common bacterial infections that propels inappropriate antibiotic use…

Escherichia coli is a normal inhabitant of the mammalian gut, but it also exists in a number of pathogenic forms. Diarrhoeagenic E. coli…

David Heymann CBE shared his expertise with EMJ on public health and epidemiology, in the context of COVID-19 and previous disease outbreaks…

Ron Daniels offered insights to EMJ on the latest developments in sepsis care, and a look to the future for optimal diagnosis…

TWO YEARS AGO, the COVID-19 pandemic emerged and swept through the world, going on to have a profound human and health toll…