Definition: A pathogen is a biological agent – such as a bacterium, virus, fungus, parasite or prion – that can cause disease in a host organism. In simple terms: a pathogen is an infectious microbe ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Pathogen reduction lowers the risk of transmitting dangerous pathogens to other patients. Examples of pathogen ...

Regulated cell death is crucial in counteracting intracellular infection, removing unneeded cells and maintaining homeostasis 1. Since the discovery of the first regulated cell death pathway—apoptosis ...

Before the COVID pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) had made a list of priority infectious diseases. These were felt to pose a threat to international public health, but where research was ...

Pathogen surveillance strategies have varying aims, ranging from identifying species and strains to detecting antibiotic resistance genes or plasmids. In this Perspective, we focus on the potential ...