The growing resistance of bacteria to existing antimicrobial drugs is a major problem, making it essential to find new ways to treat bacterial infections. Sometimes, antibiotics alone are not ...

One successful therapeutic approach to overcoming the penicillinase problem has been to alter the chemical structure of the antibiotic so that it becomes resistant to the enzymes but retains its ...

New data could change how future antimicrobial drug combinations are discovered and developed. New data from a study led by researchers from the University of Minnesota Medical School could change how ...

Antibiotic overuse and misuse has led to the spread of antibiotic resistance, a serious pubic health issue that means previously treatable bacterial infections have now become potentially deadly. Yet ...

In both cell culture and a preliminary animal model, bacteria proved more sensitive to cranberry-antibiotic combos than to antibiotics alone. The combos, which in every case incorporated ...