AbbVie said on Friday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved its drug for complicated intra-abdominal infections ...

A new study published in Biochemistry sheds light on how bacteria regulate their genes, challenging long-held assumptions ...

Amoxicillin and penicillin (also known as penicillin V potassium or penicillin G) are widely prescribed antibiotics used to treat bacterial infections primarily of the ears, nose, throat, urinary ...

Therefore, new therapeutic or strategies already available for treatment of CDI have two goals: eradicating the infection, despite the continuation of concomitant therapy, and reducing the ...

Impetigo is a bacterial infection that affects your skin, causing sores and blisters. It can appear differently depending on the stage of infection and what part of your body it affects.

Subacute sinusitis symptoms can last up to 12 weeks. They typically result from seasonal allergies or a bacterial infection requiring medical treatment. In recurrent acute sinusitis, you have at ...

Mild Clostridium difficile infection (CDI; stool frequency <four-times daily; no signs of severe colitis), clearly induced by the use of antibiotics, may be treated by stopping the inducing ...

"It is not a ‘quad-demic,’ per se, just a lot of respiratory viruses and bacteria at once," he said ... emergency department visits tied to these infections. "From cough to nasal congestion ...

The problem is that infections they cause must be treated with special antibiotics from the "reserve" list. But the more often doctors prescribe these, the quicker bacteria adapt, making those ...

An inflammation of the bladder from a bacterial infection. UTIs that involve the bladder and urethra are known as acute cystitis and infections of the kidneys are pyelonephritis. Symptoms of acute ...

Fungal infections, such as athlete’s foot and ringworm, occur when one type of fungal microbe becomes too prevalent in one area of the body so that the immune system cannot defeat it.

People often make mistakes in differentiating between viral fever and fever caused by bacterial infection. Due to cold weather, changing seasons, and weak immunity, adults and children can fall ...