The development of new antibiotics to treat superbugs and other bacterial infections is a global priority, with the rate of ...

The development of new antibiotics to treat superbugs and other bacterial infections is a global priority, with the rate of infections that cannot be treated with current antibiotics rising and ...

Pneumonia caused by the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus is one of the most dangerous infections that can occur in hospital.

British physician and microbiologist Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin nearly 100 years ago, was the first to warn ...

An international research group led by the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) has discovered a promising new drug candidate against severe lung infections caused by the hospital germ ...

What would you tell these parents? Tom Frieden, MD MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staph aureus, is an organism that became resistant in health care facilities and spread to the community. That’s ...

Scientists have developed an artificial intelligence-based method to more accurately detect antibiotic resistance in deadly bacteria such as tuberculosis and staph. The breakthrough could lead to ...

While there are over 30 different types of Staphylococcus, one strain, Staphylococcus aureus, causes most of the millions of infections that occur in the United States each year. Most staph ...

The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 149, No. 4 (Apr., 1984), pp. 538-543 (6 pages) A caseinase- and bound coagulase-negative mutant was isolated from Staphylococcus aureus BB by treatment with ...

Any one of those mutations could give your staph infection the capacity to continue replicating, even in the presence of the antibiotic. All it takes is a single mutated S. aureus—one that ...

As with penicillin, only a year passed after this semi-synthetic penicillin was released before methicillin-resistant Staph aureus (MRSA) was reported. Initially, MRSA only appeared in hospitals ...

An international research group led by the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research (HZI) has discovered a promising new drug ...