Strep and mono are both infectious illnesses. However, they occur for different reasons. Strep throat is a bacterial infection, so treatment may involve a course of antibiotics. Mono is a viral ...

Because of the shared modes of transmission, hepatitis B virus (HBV)/hepatitis C virus (HCV) coinfection is not uncommon in highly endemic areas and among subjects with a high risk of parenteral ...

Respiratory viral coinfection in patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (SAB) was associated with a more than fourfold increased risk for bacteremic pneumonia and higher 30‑day mortality rate ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with HIV and hepatitis B coinfection are at an increased risk for hepatitis D. Patients with hepatitis ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Novel hepatitis B virus RNA and HBV core-related antigen blood assays revealed continued disease activity ...

Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) exact a high toll worldwide. Both can lead to chronic disease, cancer, and death, and neither can be eradicated with the use of ...

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* pre-print server, researchers conducted a meta-analysis to determine the bacterial coinfection and antibiotic usage prevalence in coronavirus disease 2019 ...

Previous studies have suggested that people with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection who are coinfected with GB virus C (GBV-C, or hepatitis G virus) have delayed progression of HIV disease.

In coinfected patients, influenza A virus interferes with SARS-CoV-2 replication in the lung and can continue to do so even more than 1 week after clearance of influenza A, according to new research.

It has been known for decades that parasitic infections have a dramatic effect on the human immune system. For instance, some evidence suggests that certain allergic reactions are due, in part, to IgE ...