Combating infectious diseases and the threat of antimicrobial resistance remains one of the greatest global challenges.
Two different projects which aim to improve our understanding of the nature of, and statistical realities behind, health scares, natural disasters...
A new collaborative project aims to understand how pandemic viruses jump the species barrier and spread through communities.
Scientists in the Department of Veterinary Medicine are studying viruses as pathogens in host populations, endeavouring to understand the...
Two new studies have uncovered important clues about how a prolific pathogen causes disease.
The discovery of an elusive pump component opens up new avenues to understand and combat multidrug-resistant bacteria.
The rapid spread of tuberculosis in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union has been fuelled by the economic policies of the International...
Teenagers from two schools visited the Centre for Mathematical Sciences this week to show how they'd unearthed valuable data on disease dynamics...
Cambridge Infectious Diseases (CID), officially launched this month, is bringing together the expertise of Cambridge to address the challenge of...
The common view has been that parasitic infections cause disease and must be eliminated. But can we live without them?
A new test meets the diagnostic needs of resource-poor settings in both worlds.
By promoting better hygiene, health education and donated antibiotics, blindness could be drastically reduced, according to an article by a...
