The short-lived success of teicoplanin as an alternative to vancomycin motivated pharmacologic investigators to develop different antibiotic approaches. The failure of glycopeptide antibiotics led ...

“Penicillin is, I would argue, the single most important medication that's ever been introduced,” said Robert Gaynes, an infectious disease physician and medical historian at Emory University. “It ...

1 The pan-Canadian action plan on AMR has outlined priority actions to respond to this threat in Canada, including antimicrobial stewardship.2 Antibiotic treatment duration has historically been fixed ...

aureus, have been recently developed. Novel antibiotics, such as linezolid, daptomycin and tigecycline, have been successfully introduced into clinics. Several other antibiotics of different ...

MRSA's double defense against antibiotics Date: October 31, 2024 Source: University of Sheffield Summary: Scientists have discovered the mechanism which allows the superbug Methicillin Resistant ...

An antibiotic developed some 80 years ago before being abandoned and forgotten could again offer exciting new solutions, this time to the emerging threat of drug-resistant superbugs. Half of the ...

Lyfius Pharma has inaugurated its state-of-the-art Penicillin-G (Pen- G) manufacturing facility at Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh with an annual production capacity of 15,000 metric tonnes (MT).