Understanding how chikungunya virus binds to and enters cells offers a new target for antiviral medications.

Vanderbilt researchers have identified a new signaling system that anthrax bacteria uses to infect its host.

Influenza and parainfluenza infections – but not other respiratory viruses – increase the risk of acquiring pneumococcal bacteria, the most common cause of severe pneumonia.

The latest research on pneumonic plague, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and other life-threatening infections will be discussed during a Symposium on Infection and Immunity April 11 at the Vanderbilt Student Life Center.

Understanding how HIV infection affects immune system B cells may guide strategies for vaccine development.

Beyond genetics — that’s the call Oliver McDonald, M.D., Ph.D., heard during the year between college and medical school he spent in a lab at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis.