Part of what makes medical emergencies so scary is that, by nature, they can happen completely unexpectedly.

Resistance development of MRSA has become a global health problem. New resistance types, such as vancomycin-resistant S. aureus, have been recently developed. Novel antibiotics, such as linezolid ...

Drooling during sleep and wearing ill-fitting dentures can cause people to develop angular cheilitis (Getty Stock Image) "But if the cause is bacteria, prescription antibiotic ointment is the way to ...

The history of antibiotic resistance in Staphylococcus aureus spans more than half a century. Methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) has emerged as an almost ubiquitous pathogen in both the ...

The most detailed study to date on the mechanisms by which a common type of bacterium, Staphylococcus aureus ... immune system and become resistant to antibiotics. This large-scale genetic ...

Compared with the control group, those treated with antibiotics experienced greater weight loss and showed evidence of greater lung damage after MRSA infection. So, the study showed that ...

1 Department of Fibre and Polymer Technology, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden 2 Department of Materials, ...

In a recent study, published in the journal Nature Microbiology, researchers found that zinc plays a vital role in how some of the world's most dangerous bacteria resist antibiotics. Eric Brown ...

State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, Centre for Chemical Biology, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201203, China State Key Laboratory of Drug Research, ...