Mycobacterium abscessus is a fast-growing, pathogenic mycobacteria that can cause lung infections, and people who have ...

In a classic example of scientific problem solving, scientists from the Hackensack Meridian Center for Discovery and Innovation (CDI) and colleagues have published a paper introducing a promising new ...

Mycobacterium abscessus is a fast-growing, pathogenic mycobacteria that can cause lung infections, and people who have respiratory conditions or are immunocompromised face a higher risk. It can also ...

Scientists have created analogs of the antibiotic spectinomycin that are significantly more effective against these highly resistant bacteria. Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital are ...

In a recent study published in the journal Microbiology, researchers demonstrated that incorporating Manuka honey into nebulized antibiotic treatment could effectively combat respiratory infections ...

At the center of this resistance is the WhiB7 “resistome,” a set of antibiotic-limiting genes in M. abscessus. “WhiB7 is a master regulator of ribosomal stress, and many antibiotics used to treat ...

Researchers Véronique Dartois, Ph.D., and Thomas Dick, Ph.D., of the Hackensack Meridian Center for Discovery and Innovation in Nutley, N.J. The pair work with laboratory samples in developing their ...

Health experts are alerting travelers considering medical care abroad about a trio of recent drug-resistant bacterial infections caused by stem cell injections at Mexican clinics. After stem cell ...

Mycobacterium abscessus can cause dangerous lung infections. Treatment usually requires a combination of antibiotics for more than a year. Researchers in China report that curcumin, found in turmeric, ...