In a new strategy to combat citrus greening disease, scientists have engineered citrus trees to act as both bait and ...

Biofilms are conglomerates of bacteria and other organisms, which are feared in medicine as well as other areas because they ...

Uppsala University and SciLifeLab describe a fundamental mechanism of antibiotic resistance. What happens in a bacterium that is resistant to the antibiotic fusidic acid? With a stop-motion movie ...

Some resistance mechanisms are more advanced and specific. "The mechanism behind fusidic acid resistance has been a long-standing mystery," says Maria Selmer, professor and antibiotic resistance ...

Announcing a new article publication for BIO Integration journal. Tuberculosis (TB) is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis ...

When the antibiotic bedaquiline was introduced in 2012, it was the first new tuberculosis drug in over 40 years. Bedaquiline ...

Our oral and fecal microbiota are distinctly different, both in the organisms present and the resistance mechanisms in those organisms. Antibiotic Resistance in Soil Microbial Communities There ...

Antibiotic resistance is a growing threat to human health, as germs like E. coli and staph gain the power to overcome even the most powerful bacteria killers. Unfortunately, the health care we ...

has raised the alarm over the increasing rate of antibiotics resistance in humans and animals in Nigeria, saying that diseases are developing more complex mechanisms against drugs. Amaechi ...

In 2017, scientists at Cincinnati Children's revealed that using antibiotics to protect newborns from dangerous infections ...