On a small, gently rocking research boat anchored just offshore in Chesapeake Bay, I lowered a sterile plastic bottle into ...

Illnesses from stealthy pathogens known as Vibrio are advancing northward along numerous coasts, potentially ruining your ...

Eleven people have been infected with Vibrio vulnificus, the so-called "fleshing-eating" bacteria, and four of them died, ...

Researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas have created a portable food safety device they hope will one day be used at ...

Closely related bacterial species use different strategies to build their cell walls, an international team of scientists led ...

As hot temperatures hit Los Angeles this week and residents flock to the coast to cool off, the LA County Health Department ...

A vaccine protects more than 100 million infants each year from severe tuberculosis (TB), including the fatal brain swelling ...

A new study published in Nature Microbiology has reported a naturally occurring family of bacterial species in the human gut ...

“Vibrio Vulnificus” is a flesh-eating bacterium that normally lives in warm seawater. According to the Florida Department of ...

Florida leads the nation in cases of Vibrio vulnificus — a rare but deadly flesh-eating bacteria that thrives in warm, ...

A group of researchers in Japan says an experiment using mice has confirmed that a certain strain of gut bacteria improves ...

Researchers say about three-quarters of gastric cancer cases worldwide are caused by the common bacteria Helicobacter pylori ...