Should you feed a cold and starve a fever? Study investigates

Researchers find that food intake can have a positive or negative impact on infections, depending on whether the infection is bacterial or viral.

Salmonella’s favorite food could prove to be its undoing

Study suggests that Salmonella’s reliance on one particular nutrient to survive, grow and inflict damage could lead to new treatment for the infection.

News From The Journals Of The American Society For Microbiology: September 2012

New Insights Into How Certain Slow Progressers Control HIV Infection People with a rare genetic trait who are infected with HIV progress more slowly to AIDS than others.

FDA: Advanced Genomic Test Helps Trace Sources Of Foodborne Illness Outbreak

FDA scientists successfully used a new genome sequencing test to retrospectively examine a 2009-2010 foodborne illness outbreak to help trace the source of the infection.