Iron is an essential nutrient for S. aureus, which it can extract from the hemoglobin (Hb) in our red blood cells using a protein called IsdB. The process had been studied indirectly using optical ...

An international research group led by the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research (HZI) has discovered a promising new drug candidate against severe lung infections caused by the hospital germ ...

Bacteria, which are susceptible to infection by bacteriophages, often carry multiple genes encoding anti-phage defense ...

Hemolysin is a protein that forms pores in cell membranes ... the case of an acute lung infection with the highly virulent S. aureus USA300 strain, both when administered preventively or ...

Antibiotic resistance is a global health challenge that could overtake cancer mortality within a few decades. In a new study, ...

A key to antibiotic resistance might be the use of viruses to kill bacteria, however, the systems that bacteria employ to defense themselves against viruses are unknown. Understanding these systems ...