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The fungal species Candida auris is spreading across the globe, and gaining in virulence, according to a new review by a Hackensack Meridian Center for Discovery and Innovation (CDI) scientist and ...

Scientists have identified a new virulence gene from a whole genome analysis of Providencia rustigianii, which can cause severe food poisoning symptoms. Members of the team had previously reported ...

SMBE Journals (Molecular Biology and Evolution and Genome Biology and Evolution)Aug 22 2024 Surprisingly, a large number of mutations occurred at the same site or in the same gene across multiple ...

A sweeping new definition of long COVID could help affected people get recognition of their condition and improve diagnosis and treatment. The U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and ...

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Researchers have discovered a highly virulent and more rapidly progressing strain of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS — but insist it is “no cause for alarm” because of modern treatments against the ...

A new, highly-virulent form of the HIV-1 virus has been discovered in the Netherlands by an international collaboration led by researchers at the University of Oxford’s Big Data Institute. In a study ...

A new HIV variant with higher virulence and more damaging health impacts has been discovered in a new study. As the ongoing coronavirus pandemic has demonstrated, new mutations in viral genetic ...

Research led by the University of Oxford's Big Data Institute has discovered a novel, highly virulent strain of HIV in the Netherlands. The new HIV variant results in a higher viral load and faster ...