New preclinical research suggests that bowel preparation procedures for colonoscopies may temporarily alter gut balance, ...

Researchers sheds light on a face-off in the intestines between the immune system and a bacterial pathogen whose family members cause gastrointestinal disease and the plague. The team's insights may ...

Researchers have used a mouse model to show that infections in the intestine can change the composition of bile, a fluid that is generated in the liver and is crucial to digestion. Bile aids in the ...

Medically reviewed by Qin Rao, MD Intestinal metaplasia is a condition involving cell changes in the upper digestive tract lining.Helicobacter pylori infection is the greatest risk factor for ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Compared with other maternal infections, intestinal infection and genitourinary tract infection increased the ...

Recent studies in Taiwan show that bacteria and parasites that cause intestinal infections such as Shigella; Giardia; ...

Researchers have identified a new axis of host defense by studying what happens during enteric infection -- a term that encompasses all types of intestinal infections including so called 'stomach flu.

Clostridioides difficile infection causes severe diarrhea and results in the death of nearly 20,000 patients in Europe each year. It is one of the most common hospital-acquired infections. When it ...

The composition of the intestinal flora can predict the chances of developing serious infections such as pneumonia. Researchers from Amsterdam UMC and the University of Turku, Finland, followed more ...

The human gastrointestinal tract houses roughly 100 trillion microorganisms (good bacteria). These microorganisms make up ...