Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A metallo-beta-lactam inhibitor could help fight resistance to beta-lactam antibiotics. MK-3402 was found to be ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Metallo-beta-lactamases can make many clinically relevant strains of bacteria resistant to all penicillin-like ...

The mechanism which allows beta-lactam antibiotics, including penicillin, to kill MRSA has now been revealed. The mechanism which allows β-lactam antibiotics, including penicillin, to kill MRSA has ...

Infectious disease scientists identified strains of group A streptococcus that are less susceptible to commonly used antibiotics, a sign that the germ causing strep throat and flesh-eating disease may ...

Focusing on the human pathogen Staphylococcus aureus, new research led by scientists from the University of Sheffield in the U.K., examines how bacteria maintain their unique cell walls and how ...

SAN DIEGO -- In what one participant called scientific "speed dating," physicians and researchers here got a rapid-fire look at 10 antibiotics that could be on pharmacy shelves within months. "We have ...

Full-dose challenges for emergency department (ED) patients with moderate, severe, and unknown beta-lactam allergies can safely reduce unnecessary antibiotic regimens, cut costs, and preserve future ...

First-line antibiotics for uncomplicated urinary tract infection (UTI) remain more effective than fluoroquinolones and beta-lactams, with a 1.78% lower risk for 30-day revisits than fluoroquinolones ...

Scientists have designed a novel strategy to synthesize ring-shaped cyclic molecules, highly sought-after by pharmaceutical and chemical industries, and known as gamma-lactams. This study describes ...