CoNS endocarditis is common and serious, with high mortality but improving prognosis. A major study explores key insights.

Salmonella can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, elderly people, and others with weakened ...

India's first heart failure registry reveals younger patients, high mortality rates, and varying causes of heart failure.

A trainee chef rushed to hospital in respiratory arrest caused by an infection died a drug related death a coroner has found.

Blue Ridge Beef has issued a recall of 5,700 lbs. of dog food due to Salmonella contamination, affecting pets and potentially ...

West Tennessee Medical Group announces the addition of an infectious disease practice to its multi-specialty medical group.

Background: The safety and efficacy of endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) for large vessel occlusion (LVO) strokes associated with infective endocarditis (IE) compared to medical management (MM) is ...

Demisha Jennings, 32, visited the dentist to get a tooth pulled several years ago in Indiana but on returning home, she found the open wound in her mouth became infected.

This case links T pallidum to infectious endocarditis with severe damage to both aortic and mitral valves, in addition to confirmed syphilitic myocarditis, a long-forgotten complication. It occurred 4 ...

aDepartment of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada bDepartment of Pathology, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada cDepartment of Medicine ...

The following is a summary of “Infective endocarditis caused by Gemella – a retrospective registry-based study,” published in the January 2025 issue of Infectious Disease by Popova et al. In the 2023 ...