Pus is a thick yellowish, whitish, or greenish fluid made up of dead white blood cells, dead tissues, and dead bacteria or fungi. Also called liquor puris or purulent exudate, it is produced as part ...

MAUI, Hawaii – Nearly a third of patients with Crohn’s disease will develop an abdominal abscess from a fistula during disease management. A presenter at the GUILD Conference reported that a surgical ...

At times, listening to complicated medical terms could make you more ill than your actual condition. Right from symptoms of a disease to the diagnosed disease itself, you may come across several terms ...

Left untreated, a gum abscess can lead to serious complications. But catching and treating it early leads to a more positive outlook. What is a gum abscess? An abscess is a pocket of pus that can ...

A retropharyngeal abscess is a life-threatening collection of pus that forms in the back of the throat. It typically develops when the lymph nodes behind your throat become infected. They may have ...

Though it has many aliases--including pigeon fever, dryland distemper, and false strangles--and can look gruesome on the surface, a normal Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis infection is relatively ...

Infection in horses caused by the Gram-positive bacterium Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis can assume many forms. Deep intramuscular abscesses in horses caused by C. pseudotuberculosis were first ...