Physicians have relied on a class of antibiotics called polymyxins to fight potentially life-threatening Gram-negative ...

Conservative antibiotic therapy is safe and effective for pediatric peritonsillar abscess, with older children and children ...

Gastroenterologist Dr. Kumkum Patel identifies three surprising triggers behind most IBS cases: untreated food poisoning, ...

A team led by UCL and Imperial College London researchers has shown for the first time how life-saving antibiotics called ...

By making the world's microbial DNA easier to explore, a new sequence alignment tool, LexicMap, lets scientists search for a ...

The study also found nearly 80 percent of infections were caused by gram-negative bacteria such as E. coli, Klebsiella and ...

Brian P. Lazzaro highlights the promise of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) as powerful agents in the ongoing battle against ...

Queen's University Belfast-led research reports on a multicenter trial finding no significant reduction in pulmonary ...

Dogs with healthy bodies do a great job of fighting off infections; but sometimes their immune systems are overwhelmed, and ...

New research into antimicrobial peptides, small chains of amino acids able to damage bacterial cells, shows why some peptides are more effective at doing that and also why some cells are more ...

The antibiotic polymyxin can pierce the armor of active bacteria, but are ineffective when armor production is shut off in dormant bacteria.

Researchers found antibiotic-resistant bacteria driving nearly 80 per cent of sepsis cases in newborns in a number of Asian ...