Researchers have developed a new antibiotic that reduced or eliminated drug-resistant bacterial infections in mouse models of acute pneumonia and sepsis, while sparing healthy microbes in the mouse ...

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are common, but increasingly hard to treat because the bacteria that cause them are developing resistance to many antibiotics. Researchers headed by a team at the ...

The bacteria that cause food poisoning, bubonic plague, and whooping cough all deploy the same weapon to infect the body. A molecular "syringe" sticks out of the bacteria, pokes a hole in a nearby ...

Wockhardt shares surge as US FDA accepts first-ever NDA from an Indian pharma company for new antibiotic Zaynich, aimed at ...

India's common infections are becoming untreatable as widely used antibiotics lose efficacy, according to a new ICMR report.

Hebrew SeniorLife Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research The prevalence of a certain form of drug-resistant bacteria, called multidrug-resistant gram-negative (MDRGN) organisms, far ...

An antibiotic called thanatin attacks the way the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria is built. Researchers have now found out that this happens through a previously unknown mechanism. Thanatin, ...

Gram-negative meningitis is a form of meningitis. The term gram-negative refers to a way of differentiating bacteria. This type of bacteria is typically resistant to drugs and most available ...

In natural environments, bacteria rarely live as free-swimming cells but are attached to surfaces as biofilms in medical ...