Boehringer Ingelheim (BI)has started working with swine producers across the country to help implement Infection/Prevention Chain™ into their herds as a systematic approach to disease control. It is ...

The term modes of transmission refer to how an infectious agent, also called a pathogen, can be transferred from one person, object, or animal, to another. Viruses, bacteria, parasites, or fungi can ...

“Every time each of us stops, or even just delays, an infection is a small victory.” By Siobhan Roberts A simple tree diagram shows how limiting contacts early might prevent many infections. If each ...

Infectious disease is the cause of a good deal of morbidity and mortality among individuals in the community and hospitals. While much of it is sporadic and isolated, most infections tend to spread, ...

For years scientists have puzzled over why the intracellular pathogen Salmonella is able to survive—and thrive—in human and animal tissues, even within otherwise hostile cells that are part of the ...

Wheat (Triticum spp.) is often coinfected by several soil-borne fungal pathogens, causing serious crop yield and economic losses. Rapid diagnosis of infected fungi is critical for the application of ...

Plants are susceptible to a wide range of pathogens. For the common potato plant, one such threat is Pectobacterium atrosepticum, a bacterium that causes stems to blacken, tissues to decay, and often ...