Antibiotics are used to treat bacterial infections and while some are perfectly safe for use by pregnant (or breastfeeding) women, others are not. Our GP Dr Philippa Kaye says that "whether or not you ...

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 ...

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Hi Dr Danny - I wonder if you can help me. I am 32 weeks' pregnant and have been diagnosed with a kidney infection.

MRSA - or methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus - has already become resistant to most common antibiotics, making it difficult to treat with drugs. Once it gets into the body, through wounds ...

The mechanism behind how new antibiotics aimed at battling the superbug Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) function has been explained in a new study led by Shahriar Mobashery ...

Tests show the compounds, called malacidins, annihilate several bacterial diseases that have become resistant to most existing antibiotics, including the superbug MRSA. Experts say the work ...

Diagnosis Problems Blamed for 30-fold Overuse of MRSA Drugs One-third of patients with community-acquired pneumonia were treated with anti-MRSA antibiotics, although only 0.7% had MRSA, pointing ...

TAXIS Pharmaceuticals is developing first-in-class anti-resistance drugs to help re-engage widely prescribed but resistance-prone generic antibiotics ... an oral anti-MRSA (methicillin-resistant ...

A historic brine bath is the site of a potential breakthrough in the prevention of antibiotic resistance in relation to MRSA, and other hospital pathogens. The brine in the English market town of ...