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 ...

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 ...

The subtraction serum bactericidal assay has been developed to assess the effects of the individual components of antibiotic combinations in serum specimens from patients with serious bacterial ...

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 ...