Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE, “Pfizer”) will present data across its infectious disease portfolio at the upcoming IDWeek 2025 congress, held in Atlanta from October 19-22, 2025. Data in 46 abstracts from ...

You can get pneumonia due to a bacterial, viral, or fungal infection. You can also get hostpital-acquired pneumonia or ...

University of Maryland researchers are developing a vaccine that targets the dangerous foodborne bug, Salmonella.

Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine's Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health (CVD) have ...

Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine's Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health (CVD) have ...

For at least a century outbreaks of meningitis have swept across a swathe of Africa running from Senegal to Ethiopia, killing tens of thousands of people every few years.

A new study from the CDC found that infection rates for a drug-resistant “nightmare bacteria” are on the rise, increasing nearly 70% between 2019 and 2023. The increase was primarily driven by the NDM ...

The U.S. is witnessing a troubling rise in infections caused by bacteria carrying the NDM gene — dubbed “nightmare bacteria”— which one expert says poses a "grave danger" to public health. Infection ...

Health officials are raising concerns about the surge of "nightmare bacteria" in the United States, which are resistant to most antibiotics. The CDC reports a significant increase in these infections, ...

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The change was spurred by a new vaccine specifically designed to protect against bacterial strains that infect adults and the ...

Most bacteria cannot be cultured in the lab—and that's been bad news for medicine. Many of our frontline antibiotics originated from microbes, yet as antibiotic resistance spreads and drug pipelines ...