New Screening Test Identifies Potential Therapies to Fight Drug-Resistant Bacteria

New Screening Test Identifies Potential Therapies to Fight Drug-Resistant Bacteria

Researchers at the NCATS and NIAID have found a new way to identify drugs and drug combinations that may potentially be useful in combating infections that are resistant to antibiotics. The researchers used the test to screen... read more

Study Links Antibiotic Resistance to Exposure to Chlorhexidine Disinfectants

Study Links Antibiotic Resistance to Exposure to Chlorhexidine Disinfectants

Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteria exposed to chlorhexidine-containing disinfectants can become resistant to colistin, a last-resort antibiotic often used against multidrug-resistant pathogens, according to a study published... read more

Common food additive slows E. coli poisoning

Common food additive slows E. coli poisoning

An additive found in a variety of different foods can slow the effects of E. coli poisoning, Michigan State University researchers found in a study.... read more

Treated bacteremia that clears, then recurs, termed 'skip phenomenon'

Treated bacteremia that clears, then recurs, termed 'skip phenomenon'

About 4% of S. aureus bacteremia cases may not clear completely, as judged by one negative blood culture, contrary to recent IDSA guidelines.... read more

Antibiotics Linked to Sepsis Risk

Antibiotics Linked to Sepsis Risk

Disturbing healthy bacteria during hospital admission associated with later sepsis.... read more

Germ-Zappers Are Saving Lives

Germ-Zappers Are Saving Lives

Meet the world's only full-spectrum ultraviolet germ-zapping robot - the creation of Xenex Disinfection Services. The Xenex robot is now used in more than 300 hospitals in the United States.... read more

Ultraviolet air sterilizer reduces sepsis and mortality in cardiac surgery patients

Ultraviolet air sterilizer reduces sepsis and mortality in cardiac surgery patients

An ultraviolet air steriliser reduces sepsis and mortality in cardiac surgery patients, according to this research. The investigators found that sepsis occurred in 3.4% of patients using the steriliser compared to 6.7% patients... read more

Immune system of African Americans responds more strongly to bacterial infection, and it is partly genetic

Immune system of African Americans responds more strongly to bacterial infection, and it is partly genetic

A Canada-US study has demonstrated that Americans of African descent have a stronger immune response to infection compared to Americans of European descent.... read more

Bacterial molecule trains the immune system to tolerate infection without inducing illness

Bacterial molecule trains the immune system to tolerate infection without inducing illness

Pathogen infection has been considered to have one of two general outcomes - either the infected organism develops some level of illness or its immune system fights off and eliminates the invading pathogen.... read more

Dysbiosis Across Multiple Body Sites in Critically Ill Adult Surgical Patients

Dysbiosis Across Multiple Body Sites in Critically Ill Adult Surgical Patients

Current evidence suggests that symbiosis of commensal microflora play a significant role in health and illness. The effect that commensal microflora play in critical care is less well known.... read more

Scientists reveal how signals from pathogenic bacteria reach danger sensors of cells

Scientists reveal how signals from pathogenic bacteria reach danger sensors of cells

Researchers at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have discovered the way signals from infectious bacteria gain entry into the cytoplasm of host cells to activate disease-fighting inflammasomes. Inflammasomes are... read more

Scientists film bacteria's maneuvers as they become impervious to drugs

Scientists film bacteria's maneuvers as they become impervious to drugs

In a creative stroke inspired by Hollywood wizardry, scientists from Harvard Medical School and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have designed a simple way to observe how bacteria move as they become impervious to... read more

Manuka honey could fight off deadly infections in hospital equipment

Manuka honey could fight off deadly infections in hospital equipment

Manuka honey could be a powerful new weapon in the battle against hospital-acquired infections, scientists have revealed.... read more

Aflatoxin exposure can weaken airways’ defenses opening door for severe respiratory diseases

Aflatoxin exposure can weaken airways’ defenses opening door for severe respiratory diseases

Toxins from mold found growing on nuts or corn can weaken the airways\' self-clearing mechanisms and immunity, opening the door for respiratory diseases and exacerbating existing ones, suggests a study in Nature Scientific... read more