“It’s genuinely surprising that the add-on gives vancomycin any ability at all to hit gram negatives,” says Kim Lewis, an ...

Middle-ear infections caused by Gram-negative bacteria remain among the most common pediatric illnesses worldwide. When the ...

• Require X (hemin) and/or V (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide) factors for growth • Responsible for 0.5–1% of all cases of IE • Haemophilus aphrophilus is the most common species responsible for IE ...

A team of Princeton researchers led by Prof. Zemer Gitai have found an antibiotic that can simultaneously puncture bacterial walls and destroy folate within their cells -- taking out even monstrous ...

Taking antibiotics can kill beneficial bacteria in the intestines, so intestinal regulators are often prescribed along with antibiotics. A study on loramycin, an antibiotic that destroys only ...

More and more bacterial pathogens of infectious diseases become resistant to customary antibiotics. Typical hospital germs such as Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae have become resistant to ...

The spread of multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria is a serious public health threat, and new drug options for Gram-negative bacteria are in particularly urgent need. A group of researchers at Genentech ...

Evotec AGEVTCY announced that it has extended its existing collaboration agreement with Spero Therapeutics for the development of new and ground-breaking therapeutics for Gram-negative bacteria. The ...