Light is a universal stimulus that influences all living things. Cycles of light and dark help set the biological clocks for ...

June 7, 2011 — Mobile phones (MPs) of hospital patients and their visitors carry a higher risk for nosocomial pathogen colonization than do the MPs of healthcare workers (HCWs), according to the ...

It has been a year ago since bacteria from war-wounded at hospitals in Ukraine were analyzed. The study showed that some of the bacteria types had total resistance to antibiotics. Now, the same ...

Antibiotic resistance is a major concern, particularly for immunocompromised patients, who are at greater risk of serious infections. Microbiota composition can help prevent pathogenic bacteria from ...

In Gram-negative bacteria, which include some of the most devastating human pathogens, just two mechanisms for the export of polysaccharides have been identified so far. Now a research team has ...

Diverse gut bacteria have been found to block pathogenic microorganisms from getting the nutrients they need to thrive and infect the body. The gut microbiome is comprised of hundreds of different ...

In recent years, the World Health Organization (WHO) has repeatedly warned of the increase in microbes resistant to antibiotics. Especially multi-resistant bacteria threaten the global healthcare ...

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Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a novel compound that effectively clears bacterial infections in mice, including those that can result in rare but ...

It has been a year ago since bacteria from war-wounded at hospitals in Ukraine were analyzed. The study, which attracted a lot of attention, showed that some of the bacteria types had total resistance ...