Nexsen Biotech has developed a simple-point-of care test to detect group B streptococcus in pregnant women The tool also has applications in bovine mastitis and, potentially, prostate cancer and ...

Meningococcal meningitis is contagious, and it’s recommended that those living in close contact with someone who has it start prophylactic ... is positive for group B Strep, your baby will ...

Background: Although intrapartum antimicrobial prophylaxis has lowered the incidence of early onset group B Streptococcus (GBS) sepsis, there are concerns that the increased use of antibiotics may ...

Researchers tracking the bacteria causing typhoid fever, Salmonella Typhi, have observed increasing antibiotic resistance due to genetic adaptations. In discussion with The Guardian, Jehan Zeb ...

“This increases patients’ risk of future antibiotic resistance and other infections such as C difficile [Clostridium difficile] colitis. Broad-spectrum antibiotics also increase the risk for ...

Qfitlia is the first FDA-approved antithrombin-lowering therapy indicated for routine prophylaxis to prevent or reduce bleeding episodes in patients over 12 years of age with hemophilia A or B. The ...

Scientists from Northwestern University have identified that piperacillin, an antibiotic in the same class as penicillin, effectively cured mice of Lyme disease at 100-times less than the ...

Gonorrhea is a sexually transmitted disease caused by Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteria A new oral antibiotic, gepotidacin, may treat gonorrhea The drug showed similar success rates to current ...

Scientists have found the first new antibiotic treatment for gonorrhoea since the 1990s amid fears over the rise of “untreatable” strains of the sexually transmitted infection. Gepotidacin ...

Those strains may also be driving resistance to antibiotics used to treat certain cases of invasive group A strep, macrolides and clindamycin. While penicillin is the go-to antibiotic to treat ...