If you have ever had an allergic reaction to penicillin, you may have been told to also avoid cephalosporin antibiotics. Most people with penicillin allergy can tolerate cephalosporin antibiotics, but ...

The researchers found that bacteria exposed to microplastics became resistant to multiple types of antibiotics commonly used to treat infections, People in high-density, impoverished areas like ...

Doctors typically prescribe antibiotics to treat urinary tract infections (UTIs), and they can be effective. However, sometimes, UTI symptoms don’t go away after antibiotic treatment.

Antibiotics can cause side effects, such as abdominal pain and loss of appetite. Eating certain foods may help prevent these types of side effects. Antibiotics are medications that fight bacteria ...

For people with Crohn’s, antibiotics may help lower the amount and change the composition of bacteria in the intestines, which may relieve symptoms. They can also treat infections. Antibiotics ...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the biggest threats to global public health. Without effective antibiotics, the prevention and treatment of infections would be compromised. The UK’s 20-year ...

This article discusses the strains of Pseudomonas, their effects, who is most at risk, and the antibiotics that treat these infections. There are over 300 species of Pseudomonas. Most of them are ...

Various antimicrobial agents, including polymeric compounds, antibiotics, antimicrobial peptides, therapeutic inorganic ions (TIIs) (and their nanoparticles), graphene, and iodine, have been ...

I was told never to take penicillin again. I’m allergic to many antibiotics, which makes treating me (an elderly person) very challenging. Now my doctor feels that I should be able to take ...

A systematic review and meta-analysis finds that the global prevalence of reported penicillin allergy (PenA) is nearly 10%, though much of the data come from high-income countries (HICs), researchers ...

Some antibiotics target the bacterial cell wall. Beta-lactam antibiotics directly inhibit the enzyme D-alanine-transpeptidase, which impedes cross-linking of building blocks in bacterial murein ...