The present report deals with the in vitro anti-microbial activity of novobiocin and its efficacy in the treatment of a variety of surgical infections due to staphylococci and other gram-positive ...

The skin bacterium Staphylococcus aureus often develops antibiotic resistance. It can then cause infections that are difficult to treat. Researchers have now uncovered an ingenious way in which a ...

IN a previous communication 1, we showed that, by means of enzymes, it is possible to localize both the nucleic acids of bacteria : (1) ribonucleic acid in the cytoplasm, (2) desoxyribonucleic acid in ...

Golden staph (Staphylococcus aureus) is an opportunistic pathogenic bacterium that is capable of adapting to highly variable environments. It can be found in the nostrils of 25 to 30% of the ...

Potentially dangerous staphylococci compete with other bacteria for biotin in the human nasal cavity. This could offer a new point of attack in the fight against the harmful bacteria. Subscribe to our ...

A marvelous mold that saves lives when sulfa drugs fail was described in the British Lancet last month by Professor Howard Walter Florey and colleagues of Oxford.+ The healing principle, called ...

To the Editor: The article by Kundsin and Miller in the December 31, 1964, issue of the Journal, in taking up the matter of failure of eradication of Group A streptococci with penicillin therapy, is ...