It is crucial to understand that antibiotics help treat bacterial infections and have nothing to do with viral or fungal infections. It is also important to note that if prescribed antibiotics ...

FALLON A new finding from the University of Birmingham (U.K.) demonstrates how antibiotics can lead to fungal infection because of the disruption of the drugs to the gut’s immune system ...

Amphotericin B is one of medicine’s mightiest drugs: a potent, broad-spectrum antifungal antibiotic that kills even some of the most dangerous fungi outright. Despite more than half a century of ...

Indeed, over 6.5 million people are infected yearly with a life-threatening fungal infection ... As with bacteria and antibiotic resistance, so fungi can evolve to become resistant to the drugs ...

Clinicians in the US may be overprescribing topical antifungal treatments for skin ... As is the case of antibiotics and bacterial infections, overuse of antifungals can drive the development ...

This week in mBio, a multinational team of researchers in Europe report the discovery of a new antifungal antibiotic named solanimycin. The compound, initially isolated from a pathogenic bacterium ...