The FDA has approved amoxicillin and penicillin to treat similar types of bacterial infections. Both amoxicillin and penicillin belong to the class of antibiotics called penicillins. Both drugs are ...

Real-time imaging shows that bacterial resilience to antibiotics is not caused by a few ‘persisters’, but is a ...

Insert length between 800 and 3000 bp. ‡‡ One clone was resistant to all three antibiotic classes in a secondary screen. The generic term 'antibiotic' is used to denote any class of organic ...

Antibiotics are indispensable for treating bacterial infections. But why are they sometimes ineffective, even when the bacteria are not resistant? In their latest study, researchers challenge the ...

as they have two membranes antibiotics need to penetrate. For a long time, no new classes of antibiotics effective against Gram-negatives had been approved in over fifty years. However ...

While penicillin was indeed originally developed from Penicillium mold, people with this specific mold allergy are not at any more risk of developing an allergy to this class of antibiotics than ...

Small companies attempting to help solve a global crisis in drug-resistant infections with novel treatments are facing a wall ...

The quantitative analysis of 12 target antibiotics belonging to four different classes: sulfonamides (SAs), including sulfamethoxazole (SMX), sulfamethazine (SMZ), and sulfadiazine (SDZ); macrolides ...

Scientists at Roche and Harvard University have discovered an entirely new class of antibiotic that can kill a highly drug-resistant ‘superbug’ with a mortality rate that can be upwards of 50% ...