In the spring of 2011, pharmaceutical giant Merck and its collaborators learned that a data monitoring committee was calling for a halt of their phase 3 clinical trial. The vaccine candidate they had built against...
Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have taken a leap forward in understanding how we might fight back against the potentially deadly MRSA bacterium. They have shown in an animal model that targeting a key...
The sometimes-pathogenic bacteria has a long and intimate relationship with people, one that helps it fend off our immune response For the most part, the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus is common and harmless, posing no...
A study has found that much higher doses of antibiotics are needed to eliminate a bacterial infection of the airways when other microbes are present. It helps explain why respiratory infections often persist in people...
New research led by NYU Langone Medical Center has uncovered why a particular strain of Staphylococcus aureus — known as HA-MRSA — becomes more deadly than other variations. These new findings open up...
Toxins produced by a certain bacterium may be the reason behind Type-2 diabetes, say researchers who found symptoms of the disease in rabbits when exposure to the toxins for too long. The research could help in...
For the first time, the government is estimating how many people die from drug-resistant bacteria each year — more than 23,000, or about as many as those killed annually by flu. The Centers for Disease Control and...