Bacteriophages or “phages” is the terms used for viruses that infect bacteria. The UAB researchers, led by Terje Dokland, Ph.D., in collaboration with Asma Hatoum-Aslan, Ph.D., at the University of ...

Cryo-electron microscopy by University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers has exposed the structure of a bacterial virus with unprecedented detail. This is the first structure of a virus able to ...

Staphylococcus bacteria cause staph infections. There are many types of staph infections, and depending on the cause, doctors may use antibiotics, surgery, or other methods to treat them. A staph ...

Red fluorescent cell division protein FtsZ assembles so-called Z-ring in the center of the cell. The reprint in connection with the news is free of charge, the indicated author of the picture must be ...

[img id=”77367″ align=”alignleft”] This year Dr. Robert Daum, a pediatrician at the University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital, began a study tracking ...

A serious staph infection that doesn‘t respond to antibiotic treatment can develop from any wound, including a spider bite. It is also possible to mistake MRSA infections for a spider bite at first.

A new study led by researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (Penn Medicine) has identified which strains of Staphylococcus aureus ...

Staphylococcus bacteria live on skin and can cause a staph infection if they enter the bloodstream. Staph infections can involve a range of symptoms, like vomiting, rashes or inflamed skin, and fever.

Our skin is crawling with Staphylococcus aureus, the bacterium responsible for most staph infections. Usually staph is harmless, but sometimes—if it breaks through the barrier of our skin or hitches a ...