Microbes are masters of survival, evolving ingenious strategies to capture energy from their surroundings. For decades, ...

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, is accepting applications for grants to support research on the mechanisms that influence the ...

In the multicellular soil bacterium Streptomyces coelicolor, some cells start producing lots of antibiotics after mutations delete big chunks of their genomes. Now a computer model has helped to ...

Through cutting-edge methods and advanced artificial intelligence analysis, UNC Charlotte researchers leading a ...

Pressure ulcers were found to be colonized by bacteria in 76.5% of cases, leading to bloodstream infections and increased mortality rates Deep Stage 3 or Stage 4 decubitus ulcers that have been ...

A vaccine that tackles the bacteria that cause up to 200 million childhood infections every year could be possible, experts ...

Implementing ultraviolet environmental disinfection decreased the rates of hospital-acquired multi-drug-resistant organism and Clostridium difficile infections by 20 percent, according to a study in ...

Healthy dogs and cats could be passing on multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs; bacteria that resist treatment with more than one antibiotic) to their hospitalised owners, and likewise humans could be ...

Bacteria use multiple defense mechanisms to survive in the host body. Shigella bacteria that cause colitis disable multiple ...