The virus that causes eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, has evolved to infect mosquitoes. To be able to spread between ...

Sialadenitis is an infection of a salivary gland. Common causes include Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus, Haemophilus influenzae, and anaerobic bacteria. Sialadenitis is common in elderly ...

Initially, not all salivary glands were thought to be impaired while those glands that demonstrated damage seemed to heal spontaneously without further subjective and objective symptomatology.

Salivary gland obstruction results in pain and swelling in the cheek or under the jawline while eating, and foul-tasting drainage into the mouth. Such obstruction can also progress to severe infection ...

Researchers have uncovered how the dengue virus uses its envelope protein to hijack human plasmin to enhance transmission.

Diagnosis was confirmed by autopsy or needle biopsy of the liver in 8 cases. Normally, the parotid glands are not palpable, and a concavity exists in the region between the superior ramus of the ...

The findings may have implications for radiotherapy, a cancer treatment that can cause damage to salivary glands and leave lasting complications. Doctors don’t regularly come across undiscovered bits ...

The virus replicates in the mosquito's digestive tract, and is then carried through the bloodstream to the salivary glands. This cycle takes between seven and seventeen days, during which the ...

Biological scientists have uncovered how the dengue virus uses its envelope protein to capture human plasmin from a blood meal to enhance the permeability of the mosquito midgut for infection.