THE importance of bacteriology is undeniable; in fact, the study of the action of bacteria in health and in disease, inside and outside the animal body, has revealed so many new facts, it has ...

Jewel Plummer Cobb was a cancer researcher who investigated how hormones, ultraviolet light and chemotherapeutic drugs can ...

On February 7, 1900, Chinese American lumberyard owner Wong Chut King fell ill. When he died a few weeks later, in March, an ...

THIS book consists of a series of lessons upon practical bacteriology, mainly for a course of study required for the Diploma of Public Health. Commencing with the preparation of nutrient media ...

eLife is a non-profit organisation inspired by research funders and led by scientists. Our mission is to help scientists accelerate discovery by operating a platform for research communication that ...

Vaginas host a complex microcosm of bacteria and yeasts that can fluctuate over time. However, little is known about these ...

The bacteria Legionella can survive in water systems for years and can cause acute and chronic illness: In 2014-15, it was blamed for at least 12 deaths in the Flint water crisis in Michigan, and as ...

Tuberculosis was the leading cause of death in Victorian England, killing around four million people between 1851 and 1910.

This manuscript describes an important finding of the transcriptional control of a chimeric gene transfer agents (GTA) cluster in Bartonella by a processive anti-termination factor (BrrG). The ...

University of Strathclyde scientists 3D print $60 microscope in less than three hours using a publicly available design from OpenFlexure.

I went on to work for other hospitals over the years, mainly in clinical bacteriology and infection control. In 1970, I worked in the bacteriology laboratory at Episcopal Hospital. I was in the ...