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Blood test could tell if a fever is due to infection or other diseases

Analysis of gene activity in a blood sample can help determine if a fever is caused by bacterial infection, a virus or an inflammatory disease

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Color enhanced light micrograph (LM) of Candida auris, a yeast responsible for many infections. Resistant to most antifungal drugs, this fungus causes several deaths worldwide.

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Blight review: The threat of a fungi-fuelled pandemic

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Chronic constipation is associated with cognitive decline

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First RSV treatment for infants and children approved in US

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Parkinson's disease: Exercise may stop crucial neurons from degrading

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Genetic marker discovered for the severity of multiple sclerosis

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A small number of people in Florida and Texas have contracted malaria

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What we know so far about the malaria cases in Florida and Texas

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Endometriosis may be caused by bacterial infections

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Superbugs will struggle to evolve resistance to unusual new antibiotic

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Plague first came to Britain from Europe at least 4000 years ago

DNA from Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that caused the Black Death, has been found in the teeth of three people who lived in Britain during the Bronze Age

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Blood test can identify MS in some people years before symptoms start

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Stem cell therapy reduces symptoms of progressive MS for some people

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We can treat age-related illness without calling ageing a disease

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Ageing is inevitable, but we may soon treat it like any other disease

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