Disease can arise from pathogens that secrete toxins, from dysregulation of the immune system or simply from aging. Far more commonly, pathogenesis occurs as a consequence of complex interactions ...

Diseases caused by pathogens are called communicable diseases. This means the disease can be transferred from an infected organism to another organism. There are other types of disease which ...

A planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will organize a public workshop to explore the use of pathogen genomics and metagenomics data in the U.S. public ...

With the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, attention began to focus on how AI could improve public health, specifically pathogen detection and epidemic prediction. 1-6 Epidemics and pandemics ...