Mechanisms of antibiotic resistance Bacteria employ a variety of strategies to modify a bacterial ... They include penicillin and its derivatives, such as methicillin and amoxicillin, as well as other ...

Mutations — distortions in bacterial genetic material — can cause bacteria to acquire proteins that pump the antibiotic out ...

Scientists have discovered the mechanism which allows the superbug Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) to become highly resistant to antibiotics, paving the way for new approaches ...

The company’s pipeline includes investigational, preclinical and clinical stage anti-resistance agents based on novel mechanisms of ... an oral anti-MRSA (methicillin-resistant S.

portends a potential new era of resistance that will require research and development of the next generation of antibiotics that act by novel mechanisms. Community-associated methicillin-resistant ...

The number of resistant strains has increased, partly due to the misuse of antibiotics. This has resulted in more infections that are difficult to control. MRSA is methicillin-resistant ...

cSSSI: Complicated skin and skin-structure infection; ESBL: Extended spectrum β lactamase; MRSA: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; MSSA: Methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus.