Staphylococcus aureus is capable of fermenting mannitol (left side of left ... The first selective ingredient in this agar is bile, which inhibits the growth of Gram-positives other than enterococci ...

British physician and microbiologist Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin nearly 100 years ago, was the first to warn ...

An international research group led by the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research (HZI) has discovered a promising new drug candidate against severe lung infections caused by the hospital germ ...

With frightening speed, certain microbes evolve defenses against every antibiotic we throw at them. Staph aureus is a sobering case in point.

Any one of those mutations could give your staph infection the capacity to continue replicating, even in the presence of the antibiotic. All it takes is a single mutated S. aureus—one that ...

Pneumonia caused by the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus is one of the most dangerous infections that can occur in hospital.

This image is an inverted-color photograph of two bacterial agar plates containing methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) colonies. An explainable deep learning platform facilitates ...

While there are over 30 different types of Staphylococcus, one strain, Staphylococcus aureus, causes most of the millions of infections that occur in the United States each year. Most staph ...