Antibiotics

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a bacterial infection that has become resistant to most of the antibiotics used to treat regular staph infections. Duke computer scientist Bruce Donald and collaborators at the University of Connecticut are working to develop new enzyme inhibitors to fight MRSA. In research published in PLOS…

A colorized scanning electron micrograph of MRSA. Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a bacterial infection that has become resistant to most of the antibiotics used to treat regular staph infections. Duke University computer scientist Bruce Donald and collaborators at the University of…

Published: 8:44pm, 15 Feb, 2022 Updated: 11:30pm, 15 Feb, 2022 Read More

Home News A man experienced mania after taking antibiotics for the first time. (Image credit: bestdesigns via Getty Images) A man's perception of the world turned upside down after he began taking antibiotics to treat bacterial pneumonia, according to a report of his case. Within two days, the 50-year-old man…

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In 2019, 1.27 million deaths were directly attributed to antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which also contributed to 4.95 million more fatalities, according to a global analysis from medical journal The Lancet. The accelerating AMR crisis, according to a report commissioned by the UK government, could see the number of deaths due…

Even at high concentrations, antibiotics won't kill all bacteria. There are always a few survivors, even in a bacterial population that is genetically identical. Scientists at the KU Leuven (Belgium) and the University of Groningen (the Netherlands) discovered that these survivors share a common feature: they accumulate acid in their…

The evidence is in: Less is more when it comes to treating uncomplicated community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in young children. Five days of antibiotic therapy resulted in a superior clinical response compared to 10 days of treatment and had the added benefit of a lower risk of inducing antibiotic resistance, according…

Rice University bioscientists have developed a microfluidic platform for high-throughput studies of how bacteria evolve antibiotic resistance. One syringe of a solution containing bacteria or an antibiotic can provide millions of microspheres for analysis. Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University A new experimental platform developed at Rice University promises to speed up…

Antibiotics were administered to most newborns who had blood cultures drawn, even those with low risk for early-onset sepsis (EOS), according to a retrospective cohort study. Among more than 7,500 newborns who had cultures drawn at two Philadelphia perinatal units, 80.4% of those at low risk for developing EOS were…