11:06, Fri, Aug 4, 2023 Updated: 11:07, Fri, Aug 4, 2023 Easily spread from person to person, the highly contagious skin infection mostly affects children, but it can affect anyone. Symptoms can take ...

Xepi is indicated for the topical treatment of impetigo due to S. aureus or S. pyogenes in adult and pediatric patients. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Xepi (ozenoxacin cream; ...

Medical researchers have discovered novel antivirulence drugs that, without killing the bacteria, render Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) and Streptococcus pyogenes, commonly ...

Antibiotics are the old medicine cabinet standby for treating infections caused by multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, but as antimicrobial resistance continues to mount globally, scientists ...

Toxic shock syndrome is a potentially fatal illness associated with a broad inflammatory response to exposure to bacterial toxins, which are secreted by infective bacteria. Staphylococcus aureus and ...

The bacteria Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pyogenes use fibronectin-binding proteins (FnBPs) anchored in their cell walls to adhere and invade host cells, but how the largely unstructured Fn ...

This type of medium is both selective and differential. The MSA will select for organisms such as Staphylococcus species which can live in areas of high salt concentration (plate on the left in the ...

Figure 1. Honey-colored crusts are the characteristic lesions of impetigo. Seen frequently in children, this skin disease can affect patients of all ages. Knowing the proper therapy and how to prevent ...

This protocol describes the use of sortase-mediated reactions to label the N terminus of any given protein of interest. The sortase recognition sequence, LPXTG (for Staphylococcus aureus sortase A) or ...

11:07, Fri, Aug 26, 2016 Updated: 12:04, Fri, Aug 26, 2016 The bacteria, which normally lives harmlessly on the skin, nose or mouth but can invade the body’s bloodstream and release poisonous toxins.