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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are already directly responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1.27 million people every year, and these challenging infections contribute to the deaths of millions more ...

Preliminary data indicates patients experienced either a complete cure or significant improvement in infection symptoms following treatment with ...

The development of nanodrugs targeting multidrug-resistant bacteria, while sparing the beneficial constituents of the microbiome, has emerged as a promising approach to combat disease and curb the ...