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Bugs Resistant to Drugs: What Can We Do?

February 6, 2017

In September 2016, a Nevada woman died of a bacterial infection. The woman, in her 70s, had been hospitalized previously in India due to a fracture of her right leg, which led to bone infections and more subsequent hospitalizations. During these infections, she almost certainly received antibiotics to help her recover, especially given that in […]

Sarah Robbins ⋅ Perspectives in Research antibiotic resistance, antibiotics ⋅

Johns Hopkins Scientists Discover a Novel Mechanism for β-Lactam Antibiotic Synthesis

April 6, 2015

Some oft-prescribed antibiotics, including penicillin and cephalosporin, share a common motif in their chemical structure: a small group of atoms arranged in a ring, called a β-lactam. These β-lactam antibiotics utilize this unusual structure to disrupt the cell wall synthesis in bacteria, greatly inhibiting their ability to spread throughout the body. Unfortunately, how these ring […]

Kevin Monk ⋅ Perspectives in Research antibiotics ⋅

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