Antibiotics are medicines that are used to treat bacterial infections. They work by killing or slowing the growth of bacteria ...

Therapy also favored the in vivo acquisition of antibiotic resistance by the infecting strain, which was initially susceptible to multiple antibiotics. Salmonella strains resistant to one or more ...

By modifying these “efflux pumps” to recognize the antibiotic, bacteria can eliminate the drug before it poisons them. As it turns out, some phages appear to use these same efflux pumps to ...

Researchers have found that a history of repeated antibiotic use causes defects in the normally protective mucus barrier of the gut, due to antibiotic-driven alterations in the microbiota.

Several health professionals, including a pharmacist, a GP and a specialist doctor, have been criticised by the Health and Disability Commissioner for failing to provide a patient with information ...

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In a just-released report, Deputy Health and Disability Commissioner Carolyn Cooper found several health professionals missed opportunities to ensure the man understood the risk of taking the ...

MV140, and StroVac, Interest in a vaccine for urinary tract infections (UTIs) extends back to the 1950s. Since then, ...