Epidemiology and Genetics of VIM-type Metallo-β-lactamases in Gram-negative Bacilli Wei-Hua Zhao; Zhi-Qing Hu Disclosures Future Microbiol. 2011;6 (3):317-333.

Tuberculosis kills 1.3 million people each year, making it the deadliest infectious disease in the world, write KJ Seung and Kunda Kwabisha Mikanda. Eliminating U.S. funding to combat it around ...

Little Remedies® Honey Cough Syrup was voluntarily recalled due to the presence of Bacillus cereus, which can cause two types of food-borne illnesses, and loss of shelf-stability.

The FDA has approved a new antibiotic that can treat uncomplicated urinary tract infections, or uUTIs. It’s the first new class of oral antibiotics for UTIs in almost 30 years, according to ...

In this report, 30 patients in Mali with untreated multibacillary leprosy were treated with bedaquiline for 8 weeks, followed by standard multidrug therapy. Cultures were cleared in all the patient ...

The deadly effects of infection with the plague bacillus, Y. pestis, are now more controlled thanks to antibiotics and diagnostic methods, which have changed the evolutionary dynamics.

Dr Robert Koch was a pivotal figure in the golden age of microbiology. It was the German bacteriologist who discovered the bacteria that causes anthrax, septicaemia, tuberculosis and cholera, and ...

Aidixi plus BCG showed strong early efficacy and manageable safety in patients with high-risk, HER2-expressing non–muscle-invasive bladder cancer.

Find out the differences between gram-positive bacillus and gram-negative bacillus and how they may affect health.

A study published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology has identified Bacillus velezensis, a bacterial agent commonly used in agriculture, as the cause of a foodborne outbreak because of rope ...

A gut toxin that’s been linked to colorectal cancers for more than two decades may be to the sharp rise of the disease in younger people, according to new research.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new drug for treating urinary tract infections (UTIs), the first such drug approved in decades and the first in a new class of medications. Bri… ...