The way antibiotics called polymyxins pierce the armour of bacteria has been revealed in stunning detail by high-resolution ...

Alexander Fleming was doing experiments with bacteria when he woke up to a strange mold growing in his petri dish. The "mold ...

Among adults with acute cough and symptoms of infection, focused lung ultrasound does not significantly reduce antibiotic ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is warning of the surge in infections in the U.S. of a drug-resistant ...

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 ...

A team led by UCL (University College London) and Imperial College London researchers has shown for the first time how ...

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

Antibiotic resistance has become one of the most pressing threats to global health. Infections once treatable with a simple ...

Researchers have revealed how polymyxins, crucial last-resort antibiotics, break down bacterial armor by forcing cells to ...

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