Rapid detection and identification of microbial pathogens in the laboratory is imperative. However, standard microbiology testing approaches often depend on the recovery and culture of viable ...

Dr. Xiaogang Wang lab in the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology at Virginia Tech is seeking a highly motivated graduate students to begin in the Spring of 2027 to pursue research in ...

HSCI.1040 Human Anatomy and Physiology Lab II (SCL) 1 HSCI.2110 Clinical Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis 3 HSCI.2130 Clinical Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis Lab 1 ...

For years scientists have puzzled over why the intracellular pathogen Salmonella is able to survive — and thrive — in human and animal tissues, even within otherwise hostile cells that are part of the ...

When our body is attacked by a pathogen, the pathogen has to find ways to evade our immune system and invade our cells to cause infection and illness. Reporting in Cell, researchers have now ...