Most species of bacteria can be broadly divided into two groups, known as gram-positive and gram-negative. These categories reflect big differences in the microbes' biology, and they also dictate ...

A novel compound targets an essential transport system found only in disease-causing bacteria, leaving commensal bacteria ...

Three of these six pathogens are antibiotic-resistant Gram-negative bacteria. Recently, antibacterial drugs against ESBL-producing Gram-negative bacteria accounted for ∼15% (2 out of 13 ...

antibiotics induced hydroxyl-radical formation in both Gram-negative (E. coli) and Gram-positive (Staphylococcus aureus) bacteria. Blocking the production of hydroxyl radicals by treatment with an ...

Patients had to have been given empiric antibiotic ... patients with Gram-positive bacteria, fungi, or polymicrobial infection that did not stratify results by Gram-negative bacteria were excluded.