Bacterial colony counts on and under artificial ... Artificial nails place patients at risk of MRSA nosocomial infection and health care workers at risk for MRSA colonization (Toles, 2002).

In bacteria, mutations in plasmids can accumulate surprisingly fast. What does this mean for us humans, who have to fight with these new antibiotic resistant strains? Now, say that a few days ...

MRSA is an antimicrobial resistance (AMR ... but also for understanding the fundamental principles that underpin bacterial growth and division. "This will provide new ways to tackle this dangerous ...

The antibiotic teixobactin—developed a decade ago by Northeastern University professors Kim Lewis and Slava Epstein in ...

MRSA is able to rapidly adapt its metabolism ... polymorphisms at the genome scale contributes to our understanding of bacterial adaptation under various stress conditions. Expression studies ...

Initially, MRSA only appeared in hospitals and nursing ... require a minimum of 4 to 8 micrograms per milliliter of vancomycin to inhibit bacterial growth in a test tube. Again, experts knew ...

efficiently targeting MRSA. These findings have huge potential clinical relevance since it might be possible to use this approach to also target multi-drug resistant bacterial infections in the ...