Avocado Seeds from Northern Tanzania Show Antibacterial and Antioxidant Activity in Lab Tests
A laboratory study of avocado seeds from northern Tanzania found concentration-dependent antibacterial activity against E. coli and S. aureus and ...
Tag: Staphylococcus aureus
Core Tonsil Tissue Hides Bacteria That Surface Swabs Miss in Chronic Tonsillitis
A prospective study of 110 tonsillectomy patients found that surface swabs and tonsillar core samples disagreed in 82.7 percent of ...
Penicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus Outbreak Struck a German Neonatal Unit
A six-month outbreak of penicillin-susceptible, exfoliative toxin A-producing Staphylococcus aureus ST15 affected 20 infants in a German neonatal intensive care ...
Low-Dose Clindamycin Achieves 82% Two-Year Success Against Prosthetic Joint Infections
A retrospective cohort study found that low-dose clindamycin, alone or with rifampicin, achieved two-year treatment success in about 82 percent ...
Chemical Mouth Injury and Bacterial Infection Triggered Erythema Multiforme in an 11-Year-Old Boy
A case report describes an 11-year-old boy whose oral chemical injury and secondary Staphylococcus aureus infection led to erythema multiforme, ...
Two Novel Silviavirus Phages Show Lytic Activity Against MRSA
Two newly characterized Silviavirus bacteriophages from Indian sewage lysed all 28 MRSA isolates tested in laboratory assays, with genomic analysis ...
Foam pad outperforms gauze at stripping wound biofilms in pig-skin model
In an ex vivo porcine wound model, a two-sided foam pad achieved greater than 90% model-derived removal of viable Staphylococcus ...
Lactic Acid Bacteria Reprogram and Displace Mastitis-Associated Staphylococcus aureus Biofilms
An in vitro study shows that three lactic acid bacterial strains from human milk and infant feeding tubes can colonize ...
Mannose-Coated Selenium Nanoparticles Show Potent Anti-Biofilm Activity Against Foodborne Pathogens
A hyperbranched poly-D-mannose-stabilized selenium nanocomposite remained stable for 34 days and inhibited Staphylococcus aureus biofilms completely at 8.1 micrograms per ...
Chitosan-Coated Titanium Oxide Nanoparticles Show Antimicrobial and Wound Healing Promise in Vitro
An in vitro study reports that chitosan-coated titanium oxide/coumarin nanoparticles inhibit E. coli and S. aureus, eliminate about 90 percent ...
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA): a systematic review and meta-analysis of prevalence and antibiotic resistance patterns in clinical isolates at health-care settings of South Asia
A meta-analysis of 75 South Asian clinical studies estimated that MRSA represented 44.3% of Staphylococcus aureus isolates, with very high ...
New Imidazolidin-4-One Derivatives Show Antibacterial Activity Against Staphylococcus and E. coli
Chemists synthesized five new imidazolidin-4-one derivatives and found that compound F9 produced the largest inhibition zone against Staphylococcus aureus while ...
Bloodstream Infections at a West Bank Hospital Show High Antibiotic Resistance
A four-month retrospective review of 1,495 blood cultures at Jenin Governmental Hospital found 152 positive cultures, with 59.9 percent of ...
Niosome-Encapsulated Cefoxitin Shows Stronger Antibacterial and Antibiofilm Activity in Vitro
Encapsulating the antibiotic cefoxitin in niosomal nanovesicles halved inhibitory concentrations against Gram-positive bacteria and enabled activity against Gram-negative strains and ...
Antimicrobial resistance deaths in the Western Pacific set to surge by 2050
A comprehensive modelling study estimates that antimicrobial resistance was associated with 1.15 million deaths in the WHO Western Pacific Region ...
FibriLysin fusion enzyme strips fibrin shield from staphylococcal abscess communities
An engineered fusion of staphylokinase and an endolysin dismantles the fibrin-encapsulated communities of Staphylococcus aureus and outperforms vancomycin in a ...
Nasal Bacteria Feed or Starve Staphylococcus aureus Depending on Amino Acid Supply
A new study shows that amino acid availability, particularly tyrosine supplied by nasal bacterial communities, determines whether certain Staphylococcus aureus ...
Plant-based silver-copper oxide nanocomposite senses nitrite and curbs bacteria
Researchers report a Caesalpinia bonducella-derived Ag/CuO nanocomposite that detects nitrite down to 0.1 nanomolar by cyclic voltammetry and shows antibacterial ...
PBP4 Emerges as a Target for Resistant Staphylococcal Infections
A 2026 review finds that Staphylococcus aureus PBP4 may offer a dual target for reversing noncanonical antibiotic resistance and limiting ...
Dual bare-metal stents repair infected subclavian pseudoaneurysm in case report
A 70-year-old man with an MSSA-infected left subclavian artery pseudoaneurysm remained asymptomatic for 12 months after dual bare-metal stent implantation, ...
