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The infection was caused by a fungus, a type of yeast called Candida albicans

It is normally found in the vagina, living in balance with bacteria and other microbes. But illness or some medications can disrupt the balance, allowing for a problematic overgrowth of the yeasts.

The surgeons said that since yeasts normally inhabit the genital tract, they could have come from either the donor or the recipient.

HPV infection is the most common sexually transmitted disease — between 75 percent and 80 percent of females and males in the United States will be infected at some point in their lives. Most will overcome the infection with no ill effects. But in some people, infections lead to cellular changes that cause warts or cancer, including cervical, vaginal and vulvar cancers in women and anal cancers in men and women. A growing body of evidence suggests that HPV also causes throat cancers in men and women as a result of oral sex. HPV infections cause about 15,000 cancers in women and 7,000 cancers in men each year. And while cervical cancer rates have plunged over the past four decades because of widespread screening, anal cancer rates in men and women have been increasing. Head and neck cancers have also been increasing, with the share associated with HPV infection increasing rapidly — perhaps because oral sex has increased in popularity.

development of new antibiotics to treat these infections is plummeting

three confirmed infections in Britain suggests the virus can pass from person to person rather than from animal to humans

coronavirus, part of the same family of viruses as the common cold and the deadly outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

60-year-old man who had recently traveled to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia and developed a respiratory illness on January 24, 2013. Samples from the man showed he was infected with both the new virus and with H1N1

susceptibilities of the multiple-drug resistant strain of S. aureus to deuteroporphyrin and to hemin were tested. The effect of the addition of porphyrins, separately and together, to a logarithmic culture was determined from the viable count of S. aureus over an 8 h period.

This work confirmed that a deuteroporphyrin-hemin complex is a potent killer of a multiple-antibiotic resistant S. aureus in culture

This complex was able to reduce the number of bacteria by six orders of magnitude within 8 h. By using this complex, which is light independent, we have overcome the problem of light penetration to the subeschar space.

Dr. Montelaro and his colleagues found that a particular sequence of amino acids on the tail end of HIV allow the virus to "punch into" and infect cells. The team manufactured a synthetic and more efficient version of this sequence -- called engineered cationic antimicrobial peptides, or "eCAPs" -- that laboratory tests have shown to rapidly destroy bacteria that are otherwise resistant to most standard antibiotics.

Traditional antibiotics typically work by poisoning important metabolic processes after being taken up by the target bacteria, a process that may take hours, or days, to clear a bacterial infection. In contrast, the eCAPs are specifically attracted to the surface of target bacteria where they disrupt the bacterial membrane, causing death within seconds, or minutes.

eCAPs work well against biofilms

If the report is confirmed, the child born in Mississippi would be only the second well-documented case of a cure in the world

Typically a newborn with an infected mother would be given one or two drugs as a prophylactic measure. But Dr. Gay said that based on her experience, she almost immediately used a three-drug regimen aimed at treatment, not prophylaxis, not even waiting for the test results confirming infection.

Virus levels rapidly declined with treatment and were undetectable by the time the baby was a month old. That remained the case until the baby was 18 months old, after which the mother stopped coming to the hospital and stopped giving the drugs.

The Yale team’s “prime and pull” method is focused on exactly that. Working with mice, the researchers found a way to “prime” T cells to fight a certain kind of infection

through conventional vaccination that causes a system-wide immune response.

The “prime and pull” technique could potentially be used to combat any infectious agent that enters the body through any specific tissue--agents like the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS.

latest deadly strain of flu, H7N9, is spreading in China -- 82 people in China had been infected with the new strain of flu virus as of April 26, and 17 had died.

result of an immune reaction mediated by a protein called Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4).

Currently, vaccines and antiviral medications are the two main approaches to preventing influenza

FDA already has approved the use of electron beam technology as a pathogen intervention strategy to control the naturally occurring Vibrio vulnificus bacterial pathogen in shellfish.

Praveen said she and the other researchers also chose the viral pathogens as opposed to bacterial as they were more difficult to treat and also require a host species.

if a serving size of 12 raw oysters were contaminated with approximately 100 hepatitis A and human noroviruses, an e-beam dose of 5 kGy (kilograys) would achieve a 91 percent reduction of hepatitis A infection risks and a 26 percent reduction of norovirus infection risks.

18 people harbored the dangerous germ, and six died of bloodstream infections from it. Another five made it through the outbreak only to die from the diseases that brought them to NIH's world-famous campus in the first place.

Infections at health care facilities are one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, claiming an estimated 99,000 lives a year.

KPC has emerged over the past decade to become a fast-growing threat in intensive care units, spreading easily between very ill people and killing half of those it sickens.

pre-operative antiseptics have never been examined for infection risk. They were grandfathered into FDA approval because they were on the market long before the FDA began assessing such products, as a result of expert testimony that they would kill any microbes that contaminated them.  That assumption turns out to have been incorrect.

A new study finds that such transplants cured 15 of 16 people who had recurring infections with Clostridium difficile bacteria, whereas antibiotics cured only 3 of 13 and 4 of 13 patients in two comparison groups.

i diagnosed with HIV at birth and immediately put on antiretroviral therapy.

brought back into care at 23 months, despite being off treatment for five months, the child was found to have an undetectable viral load

d today no signs of HIV infection in the child can be detected by the most sensitive means available.

Doctors in the US have made medical history by effectively curing a child born with HIV, the first time such a case has been documented.

Dr Hannah Gay, who cared for the child at the University of Mississippi medical centre, told the Guardian the case amounted to the first "functional cure" of an HIV-infected child.

but it is likely that a tiny amount remains in their body.