The team is now working to develop chemically modified versions of the drug that may prove even more effective and carry ...

A naturally derived molecule shows promise in blocking critical behaviors that bacteria rely on to cause disease.

A team of researchers, led by scientists at the Houston Methodist Research Institute in Texas, has shown that the drug Candesartan cilexetil could help stop a kind of antibiotic-resistant bacteria ...

Every year, antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, commonly known as staph, causes serious infections and outbreaks in ...

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MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) is a well known superbug, a pathogenic microbe that can cause serious or fatal infections, which are resistant to treatment with standard antibiotics ...

A new study has found that a highly antibiotic-resistant strain of the superbug MRSA -- methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus -- has emerged in livestock in the last 50 years, probably due to ...

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis (MRSE) is a drug-resistant form of staph bacteria. MRSE infections may be difficult to treat due to their resistance to methicillin and other common ...

Scientists at the Houston Methodist Research Institute have found that the hypertension drug Candesartan cilexetil may help combat methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a dangerous ...

Scanning electron micrograph of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria being engulfed by an immune cell known as a neutrophil. Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers have discovered ...