(HealthDay)—For adults with exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), antibiotics and systemic corticosteroids are associated with less treatment failure, according to a review published online Feb. 25 in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Claudia C. Dobler, M.D., Ph.D., from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and colleagues assessed the comparative effectiveness and adverse events...
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Antibiotics discovered that kill bacteria in a new way: McMaster
A promising clinical candidate in the fight against antimicrobial resistance MCMASTER UNIVERSITY Hamilton, ON (February 12, 2020) – A new group of antibiotics with a unique approach to attacking bacteria has been discovered, making it a promising clinical candidate in the fight against antimicrobial resistance. The newly-found corbomycin and the lesser-known complestatin have a never-before-seen...
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Chasing antibiotics with good bacteria could prevent bad infections
By Michael Irving Your body is home to trillions of bacteria – but before you go reaching for the soap, it’s important to remember that many of them are good for you. Not only do they assist in vital bodily functions, but they can help keep bad bugs at bay. Now, researchers at Instituto Gulbenkian...
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How do you know you’ve been prescribed the right antibiotics?
by Christine Carson, The Conversation In the days before antibiotics, deaths from bacterial infections were common. Seemingly minor illnesses could escalate in severity, becoming deadly in a matter of hours or days. These days, antibiotics can be lifesavers. In the community, they’re commonly used to treat bacterial infections of the lung, urinary tract, eye, throat,...
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Controlled phage therapy hints at future alternative to antibiotics
By James Holloway Phages, viruses that thrive by infecting bacteria, have long been mooted as a potential replacement for antibiotics. But where antibiotics pose the problem of the bacteria they target mutating into dangerous resistant strains, phages pose risks due to their own fast-paced evolution, though those risks are poorly understood. But new research suggests...
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Could some antibiotics help treat early onset dementia?
The symptoms of frontotemporal, or early onset, dementia can appear as early as age 40. Have researchers found a new way to treat this condition using antibiotics? Can some antibiotics help treat frontotemporal dementia? Frontotemporal dementia, or frontotemporal lobar dementia, is an umbrella term that refers to a range of early onset dementias characterized by...
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Antibiotics could be promising treatment for form of dementia
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 10, 2020) — Researchers at the University of Kentucky’s College of Medicine have found that a class of antibiotics called aminoglycosides could be a promising treatment for frontotemporal dementia. Results of their proof of concept study, which was a collaborative effort between UK’s Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry...
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New antibiotics target the outer membrane of bacteria
A double membrane protects certain bacteria from antibiotics, but compounds have now been generated that can overcome this obstacle, seemingly by targeting a crucial protein in the outer membrane. Marcelo C. Sousa Antibiotic resistance is a growing global public-health problem1. One group of bacteria, called Gram-negative bacteria, is particularly difficult to treat, because the cells...
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New diagnostic approach rapidly identifies the right antibiotics
by Leah Eisenstadt, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Credit: Stephanie Rossow, CDC/Antibiotic Resistance Coordination & Strategy Unit Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae bacteria Patients with bacterial infections who are promptly diagnosed and treated with the most effective antibiotic fare better than those who wait. But current methods of identifying which drug will kill the pathogen take days to...
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New understanding of antibiotic synthesis
Researchers at McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine have made important strides in understanding the functioning of enzymes that play an integral role in the production of antibiotics and other therapeutics. Their findings are published in Science. “Many of the medicines that we rely on today are natural products, made by the Earth’s flora,” explains Dr....