If MRSA bacteria enter the skin, an infection can develop. Such infections do not go away on their own and require immediate treatment to prevent complications. Methicillin-resistant ...

Testing market is projected to expand steadily over the next decade, rising from an estimated USD 4.3 billion in 2025 to USD ...

MRSA is a type of staph highly resistant to a common class of antibiotics. Many people carry MRSA harmlessly on their skin or inside their noses. However, if the bacteria penetrates the skin, it ...

Public health officials are concerned that we could move back into a situation like that of the early 20th century, before ...

Antibiotic treatment during an influenza infection actually impaired the body’s efforts to clear bacteria rather than helping the body heal.

Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther. 2013;11(5):499-509. Limiting unnecessary, empiric, broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy is universally thought to be an effective tool for reducing HAIs and limiting ...

A wide number of "smart" bacteria in the environment have "learned" how to resist the arsenal of antibiotics. Decades of overuse and misuse of antibiotics have caused this crisis: overzealous ...

A groundbreaking study has unveiled how Staphylococcus aureus, a bacterium often found in humans, evolves and survives, ...

Basilea Pharmaceutica may finally be able to bring its antibiotic ceftobiprole to the US market – 13 years after its first attempt was turned down – thanks to a new phase 3 clinical trial.