Cystic fibrosis, one of the most common genetic diseases in Switzerland, promotes chronic bacterial infections by impairing ...

Bacteria can survive antibiotics in several ways, including by pumping the drugs out of their cells before they can take ...

When bacteria invade the urinary tract, the body has its own arsenal for fighting back. Among those weapons is an unlikely ...

A new study by researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) found that bacterial infections develop in approximately 5% of adults hospitalized with firearm injuries, with most ...

Scientists have discovered how some children develop natural immunity to a bacterial infection, a vital breakthrough which could help develop vaccines to save up to half a million lives globally each ...

One of the scourges of infections in hospitals – biofilms formed by bacteria that stick to each other on living tissue and medical instruments, making them harder to remove – can be tricked into ...

A new DNA sequencing technique that delivers faster and more accurate bacterial infection diagnoses could be implemented nationwide. The method, developed by the Medicines and Healthcare products ...

Researchers at Baltimore-based University of Maryland School of Medicine found approximately 5% of adults hospitalized with firearm injuries develop a bacterial infection, with most infections ...

Skin lesions occurred in 21.1% of neutropenic patients with Pseudomonas bloodstream infection in a 20-year retrospective ...