Should the patient be treated with penicillin G (or some other penicillinase-susceptible penicillin) or with one of the penicillinase-resistant, semisynthetic penicillins, such as methicillin or ...

Discover the importance of antibiotics, bacterial cell walls, and resistance mechanisms in fighting bacterial infections effectively.

Bacterial insertion sequences (IS) are small DNA segments (<2.5 kb) with a simple genetic organization. Most IS elements exhibit short terminal inverted repeat sequences (IR) and encode a transposase, ...

Clinical presentation of lactational breast abscess usually includes fever, chills, malaise, and recent or recurrent mastitis. Pain, erythema, and firmness over an area of the breast are typically ...

Drug repurposing, or identifying new uses for existing drugs, has emerged as an alternative to traditional drug discovery processes involving de novo synthesis. Drugs that are currently approved or ...

and both are inactivated by penicillinase. The data presented in this paper indicate that the presence of factors such as extremes of age, neoplasia, abscesses and exposure to various therapeutic ...

Antibiotics that inhibit protein synthesis are known to have some degree of antivirulence effects. Macrolides bind reversibly to 23S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) of the 50S subunit of bacterial ribosome ...