Bacteria & the Lungs...
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How Does Legionnaires Disease Spread?
Legionnaire’s disease is caused by the bacterium Legionella pneumophila. This causes upper respiratory infections that sometimes resemble...
Tuberculosis, Past, Present and Future
Tuberculosis was a massive scourge in the ancient world. Archaeologists have found evidence of TB in human remains as old as 7000 years. It is...
What is Psittacosis?
Psittacosis is a bacterial infection that affects birds, predominantly parrots, but also other exotic species such as budgies, cockatiels and macaws and more...
Which Bacteria Cause Pneumonia?
Pneumonia is a medical term used to describe lung inflammation. This can be due to a wide variety of causes only one of which is a bacterial infection. Pneumonia can...
Which Bacterium Causes Diphtheria?
Diphtheria is caused by the bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheriae. This disease is a severe childhood infectious disease that has a fatality rate of about 10 per cent,...
Whooping Cough; a Childhood Infection of the Past?
In affluent, industrialised countries like the UK, yes, the incidence of whooping cough is now much lower than it used to be. Up until the 1950s,...
Why is Whooping Cough Becoming More Common?
Whooping cough is a childhood infection caused by a bacterium, Bordetella pertussis. This used to be a common feature of being a child 60 years...
