Most species of bacteria can be broadly divided into two groups, known as gram-positive and gram-negative. These categories reflect big differences in the microbes' biology, and they also dictate ...

A new crop of drug-resistant superbugs is in our midst, and experts believe that they could rival the deadly superbug MRSA. A new report from the Infectious Diseases Society of America says these ...

Studies that included patients with Gram-positive bacteria, fungi, or polymicrobial infection that did not stratify results by Gram-negative bacteria were excluded. Studies where all patients (100 ...

1-5 What Bacteria Use Quorum Sensing? Both gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria use quorum sensing. Generally, gram-negative bacteria employ acylated homoserine lactones as autoinducers, which ...

A vaginal pH exceeding a value of 4.5; The presence of so-called clue cells – vaginal epithelial cells with such a heavy coating of bacteria ... (positive whiff or sniff test). As an alternative ...

In gram-negative bacteria, the most common mechanism of resistance is the hydrolysis, or breaking apart, of the antibiotics by enzymes referred to as the beta-lactamases. There are two broad classes ...

Antimicrobial resistance is a global issue, making the search for a new generation of antibiotics imperative. Scientists ...

Acurx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACXP) ("Acurx" or the "Company"), a late-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a new class of small molecule antibiotics for difficult-to-treat bacterial ...