As strains of pathogens resistant to frontline antibiotics become more common worldwide, clinicians are more often turning to combination treatments that degrade this resistance as a first treatment ...

When many disease-causing bacteria encounter penicillin, they are not always destroyed right away, shifting into a temporary survival state called antibiotic tolerance. This state allows them to ...

If you have had strep throat or an ear infection, there's a good chance you received amoxicillin or penicillin to effectively kill the troublesome bacteria. These drugs, which belong to a broad group ...

Antibiotics' contributions to modern medicine cannot be understated. They have significantly reduced disease-associated mortality and provided unprecedented extensions to human lifespans.

Antibiotic resistance is widely linked to antibiotic misuse, yet growing evidence suggests that everyday environmental ...

When the world’s first antibiotic, penicillin, was discovered in 1928 and years later used to treat bacterial infections, it changed the course of modern medicine. Fast forward to now and the fiendish ...

Researchers have simplified the operation of an important class of chemical transformation: synthesis of beta-lactams, the intricate scaffold of many antibiotics. Their experimental protocol minimizes ...

The authors found “an interesting way to resensitize resistant bacteria to agents that are absolutely fantastic when they work,” said medicinal chemist Amy Anderson of the University of Connecticut ...

Researchers are developing a new class of antibiotics that target lipoprotein transport in Gram-negative bacteria such as E.

Experts suggest supporting vaginal delivery where it is medically safe, promoting exclusive breast feeding, and cautious use ...