British physician and microbiologist Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin nearly 100 years ago, was the first to warn ...

With frightening speed, certain microbes evolve defenses against every antibiotic we throw at them. Staph aureus is a sobering case in point.

Any one of those mutations could give your staph infection the capacity to continue replicating, even in the presence of the antibiotic. All it takes is a single mutated S. aureus—one that ...

As with penicillin, only a year passed after this semi-synthetic penicillin was released before methicillin-resistant Staph aureus (MRSA) was reported. Initially, MRSA only appeared in hospitals ...

It is shown that the common laboratory frog (Rang vernalis) is highly refractive to a strain of Staphylococcus aureus virulent to man. This immunity does not depend on the low body temperature of the ...