If successful, it would be the first new class of drug against certain bacteria strains for more than fifty years ...

A team led by Paul Hergenrother at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has discovered a new antibiotic that exclusively targets gram-negative bacteria and avoids wiping out the ecosystem ...

Recce Pharmaceuticals (ASX:RCE) said it had received a notice of acceptance from the China National Intellectual Property ...

Gram-positive bacteria show blue or purple after Gram-staining in a laboratory test. They have thick cell walls. Gram-negative bacteria show pink or red on staining and have thin walls. They ...

and "thus colistin is typically utilized only as an antibiotic of last resort," the researchers wrote. To tackle the many problems associated with indiscriminately targeting gram-negative bacteria ...

studies with community-acquired Gram-negative infections were included only for the outcomes of length of stay and cost. Patients had to have been given empiric antibiotic therapy prior to the ...

Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest ... Many antibiotics need to enter the cells to be effective. Because of that, Gram-negative bacteria, which have an outer cell membrane, tend to ...

Infection control standards need to be followed closely to prevent the development and spread of antibiotic-resistant infections. Gram-negative bacteria have a hard, protective outer shell.

How can we prevent antibiotics from becoming obsolete? All that said, when it comes to antibiotic resistance, gram-negative bacteria have an edge thanks to their double membranes. The outer ...