Imagine a city under constant threat from invaders. The city's defense system deploys a sophisticated anti-missile defense mechanism to neutralize threats before they can cause harm. In the ...

[10] By contrast, nafcillin, a semisynthetic penicillin extensively used as the drug of choice for treatment of a number of meticillin-sensitive S. aureus (MSSA) infections such as endocarditis ...

When these approaches began to yield diminishing returns in the 1960s, companies turned instead to semisynthetic modification of existing antibiotics to produce second- and third-generation ...

It manufactures semi-synthetic penicillin and is among the world's highest producers in amoxycillin. Kopran also makes penicillin-G acylase an enzyme made through fermentation. It has technical ...

If you've been diagnosed with an environmental Penicillium mold allergy, you might wonder if that means you could have a penicillin allergy or food allergies, too. An environmental mold allergy is ...

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As it stands, antibiotics kill bacteria indiscriminately. Because the drugs are used so widely, increasing numbers of dangerous bugs are growing resistant, threatening one of modern medicine's ...

Award to support the development of molecules to inhibit BamA protein Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator (CARB-X) will award a seed grant of US$610k to Justus Liebig ...

Once the ear canal is free of debris, topical therapy is initiated. The first step involves application of agents to re-acidify the ear canal and/or reduce inflammation. [1] Useful acidic ...

Jan. 6, 2025 — Tuberculosis (TB) is the world's biggest infectious disease killer with multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) posing a particular threat to global health. A study shows that resistance ...

It belongs to a class of medications called macrolide antibiotics and is derived from a similarly named antibiotic, erythromycin. It works by interfering with a bacterium's ability to produce proteins ...