In today's medical landscape, antibiotics are pivotal in combatting bacterial infections. These potent compounds, produced by bacteria and fungi, act as natural defenses against microbial attacks ...

To understand how nature evolves antibiotics around a common mechanism of action, we investigated the origins of an extremely valuable class of compounds, lipid II targeting glycopeptide ...

To understand how the ancestor of today's glycopeptide antibiotics—such as vancomycin, ristomycin and teicoplanin—might have looked like, the researchers used a combination of bioinformatics ...

Unnecessary antibiotics can harm people as well. “All antibiotics, like all medications, have side-effects and risks,” said Fleming-Dutra.

How quickly do antibiotics clear up an infection? How fast an infection clears out is also dependent on a few variables. Narula explains, “For an infection to clear out, there are several ...

Antibiotics affect the microbes in your gut in a similar way that wildfires affect the plants and animals in a forest, Dr. Dong said. The landscape regrows, but with less diversity than before.