There are at least nine different diseases that are classified as systemic mycoses. While many of these are airborne infections, some are not. Mainly caused by fungi, systemic mycoses are often serious or fatal. The diseases cryptococcosis and moniliasis are…
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Drug resistant organisms are on the rise. In other words it’s at the critical point and this escalating problem must now be dealt with What can the general public do to help combat this problem? First of all they must…
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Piconavirus belongs to a family of RNA viruses and more specifically to the piconaviridae family. It contains several genera and one of these is the enteroviruses. Being second only to the viruses causing common cold with regard to infectivity potential,…
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An age-old dream of the human race may have finally been realized. Painstaking research conducted by brilliant researchers at the Cambridge Laboratory of Molecular Biology proved that the body’s own immune system has the ability to destroy the cold virus…
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Humans have been getting infected by viruses since the dawn of human evolution. For thousands of years, small pox, influenza, polio, herpes and human papiloma virus have been a huge part of human existence. But it has only been in…
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Human beings can be infected with diseases that are caused by bacteria, viruses or parasites. There are also other microscopic life forms that can cause infectious diseases in humans. These minute organisms live in or on the body, and they…
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Bacteria is everywhere, and they’re essential for the continuation of life on Earth. While many of these microorganisms are beneficial others can trigger serious illnesses in humans. In order for harmful bacteria to attack you, they must enter your body and there are…
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One factor linked to the appearance of hepatitis is the torque teno virus. This can be passed on during a blood transfusion thereby giving its alternative name of transfusion transmitted virus. However, the details of the virus and the link…
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What is Rhinovirus? Rhinovirus belongs to the group of viruses known as Piconavirus and thus falls in to the same family as the polio virus. But, the rhinovirus is of minimal virulence type and therefore would not cause a serious…
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A picornavirus is a member of the Picornaviridae family of viruses, which are some of the smallest RNA viruses known to exist. Their single strand of RNA contains only a few thousand base-pairs – half that of influenza viruses like…
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