Researchers have revealed how Staphylococcus aureus bacteria extract iron from hemoglobin—a process crucial to their survival during infections. Using a novel time-resolved X-ray solution scattering ...

Researchers have described how the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus genetically adapts to humans, including mutations that allow some strains to evade the immune system and become resistant to ...

The most detailed study to date on the mechanisms by which a common type of bacterium, Staphylococcus aureus, adapts to living on the human body could help improve the prevention, diagnosis, and ...

Microbiology researchers from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, have discovered why patients with the autoimmune ...

Staphylococcus aureus osteomyelitis is a serious infection of the bone characterised by persistent bacterial colonisation, tissue destruction and impaired healing. The pathogen exploits multiple ...

People who persistently carry Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) in their nose have fewer species of other bacteria, while certain bacteria may help to prevent S. aureus colonization. These are the ...

British physician and microbiologist Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin nearly 100 years ago, was the first to warn of the dangers of antibiotic resistance. In his 1945 Nobel Prize speech, 27 ...

Eight dogs of various breeds collaborated on the study, four of which were recruited from the Penn Vet Working Dog Center and four from their community science program, which includes dogs that ...