Look at these pore souls. Dr. Scott Walter — a board-certified dermatologist in the Denver area — is raising awareness about Demodex, a type of tiny eight-legged mite that resides in hair ...

Two main species are commonly found on humans: Demodex folliculorum ... and even certain antiparasitics and antibiotics for ...

Exposure to mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) infection happens because of contaminated water or soil. Learn who gets severe ...

A concerning increase in global rates of severe invasive infections becoming resistant to key antibiotics has a team of infectious disease researchers studying a recently emerged strain of bacteria ...

Clade Ia: a strain that has been spreading in Central Africa since the virus was first discovered to infect humans in 1970.

Scientists investigating animal viruses with potential to infect humans have identified a critical protein that could enable spillover of a family of organisms called arteriviruses. In a new study, ...

For several months in 1898, a pair of male lions turned the Tsavo region of Kenya into their own human hunting grounds ... a 2017 study found evidence of an infection to the root of a canine ...

HTLV-2 infection has not been associated with any human disease. In 2005, two new HTLV members were discovered in humans who had hunted monkeys in Cameroon. As in the emergence of HIV, experts believe ...

Like humans and other complex multicellular organisms, single-celled bacteria can fall ill and fight off viral infections. A ...

The infection also has to be able to sustain itself within the population, that is more and more people continue to become infected. Many emerging diseases arise when infectious agents in animals are ...

Contagious feline mange is commonly caused by two different mites—Notoedres cati and Demodex gatoi. N ... "These mites rarely affect humans but can with prolonged, direct contact, causing extreme ...