Daily assessment of procalcitonin (PCT), rather than standard care alone, led to patients spending significantly less time on ...

One alternative to antibiotics is phage therapy, which harnesses viruses to attack bacterial cells. Conceived over a century ...

Make your antibiotic medication as effective as possible by getting these answers before you leave the doctor's office or ...

Insights into how diverse phage communities coexist within a single E. coli strain could lead to newer, more effective phage-based therapies.

As the problem of antibiotic resistance continues to grow, we need new drugs that the bad bacteria in our bodies don't ...

A new study reveals how a single species of bacteria can sustain a diverse community of phage species, with implications for ...

Viruses that infect and kill bacteria, called phages, hold promise as new treatment types for dangerous infections, including ...

Valdrez said a syphilis blood test ideally happens during the first trimester so there are at least four weeks between when ...

Lincoln County Health Department officials announced this week the confirmation of three cases of pertussis. Also known as whooping cough, the county said there are three confirmed cases in school-age ...

Surprisingly, the ground beneath us is packed with antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) -; tiny codes that allow bacteria to resist antibiotics. Human activities, such as pollution and changing land use ...

High levels of harmful bacteria and medicines used to treat diabetes and seizures were discovered in samples collected from ...

Published online December 12 in the journal Science, a new study offers the first evidence that a single bacterial species—the host of the phage—can maintain a diverse community of competing phage ...