Tag: antibiotic

Highlights Most antibiotic compounds originate from soil microbes.  Researchers have discovered solanimycin, a new antifungal antibiotic.  Solanimycin is produced by ...

About The Study: In this randomized clinical trial and systematic review and meta-analysis, the use of antibiotic eye drops was ...

ARLINGTON, VA (September 14, 2022) — Healthcare professionals should use antibiotics and diagnostic testing judiciously during the early stages of ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 2.8 million Americans contract antibiotic resistant bacterial infections each year, ...

HOUSTON – (Aug. 25, 2022) – A new class of motorized molecules that kill specific bacteria shows promise to curb ...

A massive analysis of more than 10,000 different Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria isolates from 23 countries has revealed new genes associated ...

BEER-SHEVA, Israel, July 10, 2022 – Antibiotic resistant bacterial pathogens are increasingly playing a role in rising illness and preventing ...

SAN ANTONIO (June 29, 2022) — Telehealth consultations with a pediatric infectious disease specialist at The University of Texas Health Science ...

Bioaerosols, or airborne biological particles containing viruses, fungal spores, bacteria, and pollen, play a key role in public health. Antibiotic ...

Hospitals and policymakers alike have banded together to improve recognition and treatment of sepsis, a life-threatening reaction to infection, which ...

A new antibiotic, synthesized at The Rockefeller University and derived from computer models of bacterial gene products, appears to neutralize ...

Treatment of severe infections caused by pathogenic bacteria relies on ‘last resort’ antibiotics, but rising resistance by ‘superbugs’ to most ...

Antibiotics have saved countless lives since they were introduced in the 1940s, curing infections and making procedures like chemotherapy and ...

Repurposed drugs may have a speedier path to clinical use because they have already been shown to be safe in ...

Bethesda, MD (May 13, 2022) — The more antibiotics prescribed to patients 60 and older, the more likely they were ...

**Note: this is a press release from the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID 2022, Lisbon, 23-26 ...

**Note: this is a press release from the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID 2022, Lisbon, 23-26 ...

Demand for new kinds of antibiotics is surging, as drug-resistant and emerging infections are becoming an increasingly serious global health ...

Infants carry a vast assemblage of bacteria, viruses and fungi in their guts. Combined, these microbes make up a complex ...

Most antibiotics are double-edged swords. Besides killing the pathogen they are prescribed for, they also decimate beneficial bacteria and change ...