“It’s genuinely surprising that the add-on gives vancomycin any ability at all to hit gram negatives,” says Kim Lewis, an ...

Nature Chemical Biology paper suggests that bacteria detect the antibiotic itself and not its effect on the bacterial cell wall. Researchers report that they have figured out how bacteria recognize ...

Staphylococcus aureus has the potential to develop durable vancomycin resistance, according to a study published August 28, 2024, in the open-access journal PLOS Pathogens by Samuel Blechman and Erik ...

Several published retrospective studies and case reports document neutropenia as an adverse event associated with intravenous and intraperitoneal vancomycin use; however, there are no prospective ...

Recently, a research team led by Prof. SUN Baolin from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) revealed the mechanism of transcriptional regulation via S-nitrosylation for vancomycin ...

Earlier this month, President Barack Obama announced a five-year plan to solve the growing problem of antibiotic resistance. Researchers now report structural modifications to the antibiotic ...

Purpose. The feasibility of using a limitedsampling algorithm for administration of vancomycin for treatment of vascular-access-related bacteremia in outpatient high flux hemodialysis was investigated ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . However, this finding did not reach statistical significance, the researchers noted. “This is the first ...

Vancomycin flushing syndrome (VFS) is a reaction to the antibiotic drug vancomycin. Common symptoms consist of a rash that itches during or after the infusion of vancomycin. VFS is the most common ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Clinical response was noted in 47.6% of patients treated with oral vancomycin therapy for IBD associated with ...