Phages are viruses that attack bacteria by injecting their DNA, then usurping bacterial machinery to reproduce. Eventually, ...

Patients had to have been given empiric antibiotic therapy prior to the ... Studies that included patients with Gram-positive bacteria, fungi, or polymicrobial infection that did not stratify ...

Throughout the years, Waksman had numerous colleagues who were interested in the antibiotic properties ... which were both potent against gram positive bacteria but were too toxic to use in ...

It's the first and only such therapy approved to fight antimicrobial resistance, or AMR, in bacterial infections.

Gram-positive bacteria, on the other hand, lack such an outer membrane. Both classes of bacteria share strategies that they use to resist antibiotics, Mark Blaskovich, a professorial research ...

Dr. Timothy Palzkill, professor of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, and his research team have been studying mechanisms of resistance to the beta-lactam ...

The researchers showed that when curcumin is intentionally given to bacteria as food and then activated by light, it can trigger deleterious reactions within these microbes, eventually killing them.

Antibiotics are indispensable for treating bacterial infections. But why are they sometimes ineffective, even when the bacteria are not resistant? In their latest study published in the journal Nature ...

In contrast, gram-positive bacteria typically use processed oligopeptides ... and form symbiotic relationships to create biofilms that protect pathogens from antibiotics. 1,2,6 How Do Bacteria Use ...

The team demonstrated the technology's effectiveness using bacterial samples containing both Gram-positive ... bacteria to reveal, for example, their growth patterns and responses to antibiotics ...

Researchers from the HUN-REN Biological Research Centre, Szeged (Hungary), have made a concerning discovery about the future of antibiotics.