There is a compelling need to produce new antibiotics that hamper severe opportunistic infections, especially in immunocompromised individuals, such as those caused by gram-negative Pseudomonas ...

A new study reveals that bacteria can survive antibiotic treatment through two fundamentally different "shutdown modes," not ...

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Bacteria have an immune system that protects them against viruses known as bacteriophages. A research team from the Universities of Tübingen and Würzburg has now shown how this immune system enhances ...

As more and more pathogenic bacteria gain resistance to commonly used antibiotics, the search for new, effective, and safe antibiotics has become vital. According to The Lancet, almost 5 million ...

The outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria is a target for antibiotics For more than a hundred years, bacteria have been classified into Gram-positive and Gram-negative pathogens according to their ...

Researchers have combined the bacteria-killing actions of two classes of antibiotics into one, demonstrating that their new dual-action antibiotic could make bacterial resistance (almost) an ...

Even with correct antibiotic doses, some bacterial infections return because persister cells survive treatment by entering ...

Antibiotic resistance is one of the greatest health threats of our time. With microbes increasingly evading the effects of ...

Health experts, gathering at the U.N., have begun to shift their focus to try to provide access to basic drugs in countries where preventable deaths from infections occur too frequently. By Andrew ...