Staphylococcus lugdunensis is a coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS), commonly found on human skin. While most CoNS bacteria are typically considered clinically harmless, recent studies have shown ...

IN the last twenty years, the staphylococcus has replaced the streptococcus as the chief cause of infection in maternity units. Sporadic and epidemic staphylococcal infection among newborn infants now ...

Due to increasing antibiotic resistance in pathogens causing infections, the development of new antibacterial substances is needed. Scientists are testing out a new group of substances produced by ...

An Institut Pasteur-CNRS research team has characterized a Staphylococcus aureus gene involved in virulence, biofilm formation and resistance to certain antibiotics. These results open up new avenues ...

This type of medium is both selective and differential. The MSA will select for organisms such as Staphylococcus species which can live in areas of high salt concentration (plate on the left in the ...

Approximately 80% of patients in intensive care showed clinical improvement in gram-positive bacterial infections after treatment with linezolid, based on data from more than 300 individuals.

Gram stain of the stool revealed organisms resembling staphylococci, but, through a misunderstanding, therapy was not changed. Shortly thereafter the patient went into shock and died. Stool cultures ...

A recent Nutrients study screened antibacterial peptides obtained from sesame protein using in silico and in vitro methods to explore their antibacterial activity against Escherichia coli and ...

A new study led by researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (Penn Medicine) has identified which strains of Staphylococcus aureus ...