In the absence of proper hygienic conditions, resistant strains of bacteria can spread from person to person. Mechanisms of antibiotic resistance Bacteria employ a variety of strategies to modify a ...

An international collaboration has achieved an important breakthrough in understanding the genetic mechanisms that allow ...

Researchers made a “huge breakthrough” when they did an experiment “purely out of curiosity” which solves “a decades-long ...

Antibiotic resistance can develop to new antibiotics even before they reach the market, undermining their future ...

The researchers theorise the protective effects of these drugs could be because they reduce inflammation, control infections ...

Complementary discoveries have the potential to enhance treatment options for antibiotic-resistant infections. Researchers at ...

A new study from Tel Aviv University (TAU) reveals how bacterial defense mechanisms could be neutralized during genetic material exchange, potentially enabling scientists to solve the crisis of ...

The results were particularly promising for Staphylococcus aureus (golden staph), a major cause of drug-resistant skin and ...

The following is a summary of “Antibiotics use decreases survival in cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma patients receiving ...

Researchers at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology and the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research have ...

Oysters are constantly filtering bacteria from the water, so they are a good place to look for potential antibiotics.’ ...

[5,23,25–28] It is uncertain what the mechanism is that leads to this difference in re-infection rates. The authors postulate that these oral antibiotics may have prevented biofilm formation on ...