It develops when bacteria enter and infect two or more hair follicles, leading to a bacterial infection that spreads into deeper layers of your skin. Staphylococcus aureus (staph) bacteria cause most ...

A furuncle, or a boil, may begin as a bump on your skin that looks like a pimple, but as the infection worsens, it becomes ...

Schulich master's student and antibiotic resistance researcher Alex Sheikh says there's always "more to uncover because bacteria are always adapting." ...

Background Healthcare-associated infections due to multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) remain a high priority patient ...

As antimicrobial resistance threatens medical progress, doctors like Sylvia Omulo are looking for clues to help us heal.

Ivermectin is a medication that treats some parasitic diseases. There are two types: one that doctors prescribe for certain health conditions in people and another that veterinarians prescribe ...

Researchers have found Staphylococcus aureus can adapt to vancomycin while overcoming its fitness cost, threatening the ...

Professor Hajo Grundmann, a world expert in infectious diseases, said MRSA in hospitals is already 'out of control' in many countries. But the emergence of stronger and more virulent strains could ...

Once infection has been established, vancomycin is the drug of choice. Because vancomycin resistance is increasing among strains of MRSA, linezolid and quinupristin/ dalfopristin are other ...

No, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is not a sexually transmitted infection (STI). Although MRSA typically spreads through skin-to-skin contact, which may occur during sex ...

She is co-writing a book about nutrition and health. “Obesity is a disease,” Oprah Winfrey declared after disclosing her weight loss with an Ozempic-like drug. “It’s a brain disease,” a ...

The research team used AlphaFold2 to explore how mutations affect protein stability-; a crucial factor in ensuring proteins function correctly and do not cause diseases like Alzheimer's.