When Cole first received phage therapy, she had been dealing with a blood infection for nearly a month. Her doctors tried a variety of antibiotics with no effect. But 24 hours after they administered phage therapy, Cole’s infection was gone. She seemed cured. ...
It is therefore imperative to explore therapeutic avenues that are less prone to raise drug resistance compared to today's antibiotics. An opportunity to achieve this ambitious goal could be provided by targeted antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (aPDT), which relies on the combination of a bacteria-...
This tonic is not just good for flu-fighting. It is great for any infection—even infections that are resistant to prescription antibiotics. It is a pain reliever for inflammation, muscles and joint pains, stop sinusitis, improves blood flow (great for individuals suffering fromRaynaud syndrome)...
Due to the dearth of novel antibiotics in recent years, and the on-going crisis of antimicrobial resistance, bacteriocins may yet prove to be invaluable in clinical settings against biofilm producers. It is noteworthy that thus far, only the derivative of the lantibiotic deoxyactagardine B, NVB3...
cartoons with a mask on, he’s inhaling the antibiotics that work to kill the bacteria. ButPseudomonasis likely to return — it’s an “opportunistic infection” that, eventually, becomes immune to antibiotics. For cystic-fibrosis patients, it’s one of the factors associated with an earlier ...
Brown University researchers have developed a new antibacterial coating for intravascular catheters that could one day help to prevent catheter-related bloodstream infections, the most common type of hospital-acquired infection.
That doesn’t sound like a lot, but in any one person, in any given infection, there can be as many as a billion bacterial cells.” Prescribing two antibiotics, each attacking a different target, can change those odds from 1 in 100 billion to 1 in 100 billion squared, dramatically ...
Public health officials are increasingly concerned over methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). The bacteria have developed resistance to a number of treatments, even antibiotics of last resort in some cases. Now researchers report in ACS' jo
Influenza virus infection Influenza virus (IV) infections or acute viral respiratory infections are highly contagious and can cause pandemics, epidemics, and outbreaks [143]. The WHO estimates that each year, seasonal influenza virus (seasonal IVs), comprising the H1N1 and H3N2 IAVs and influenza ...
Antiretroviral drugs block new infection of susceptible cells without affecting release of virus particles from previously infected cells. Thus the drugs affect β but not k. In the case of effective HAART, they reduce β to 0 such that virus production comes only from cells infected prior to th...