The discovery of sulfonamide antibiotics in the 1930s revolutionized medicine. They were the first synthetic drugs that could cure a battery of bacterial infections. Yet despite more than 70 years of ...

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Scientists have discovered a key enzyme structure in bacteria, a finding that lays the foundation for a new generation of antibiotics that are safer and less prone to drug resistance. St. Jude ...

MENINGOCOCCAL infections have been a relatively minor cause of morbidity and mortality during the past decade when compared with other major infectious diseases. In certain segments of the population, ...

One of the first U.S. trials of a sulfa drug was made in 1936 on a sinus infection of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. (he was cured). Since then interest in sulfa cures has centered around other ...

Sulfonamide drugs have high and broad spectrum activity and are generally used to prevent and treat bacterial growth. However, honey samples often contain residues of these drugs and pose health ...