Antibiotic resistance is a bacterial defense mechanism against antibiotics. It can rapidly spread from one bacterium to another. This makes antibiotics increasingly ineffective.
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The level of resistances against antibiotics is rising. This is a great challenge for physicians and scientists. Scientists within the DZIF research field “Healthcare-associated and Antibiotic-resistant bacterial Infections” aim to develop new strategies against the development and spread of resistance.
A new retrospective, laboratory-based observational study provides detailed insights into the causes of fevers of unknown origin in sub-Saharan Africa. Together with scientists from Guinea and
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Holiday Inn Munich City Centre Hochstraße 3 81669Munich Germany
More than 400 experts from the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) and the German Society for Infectious Diseases (DGI) will meet in Munich from February 13-15, 2025 for their Joint Annual
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the greatest challenges for global health and development. According to estimates by the World Health Organisation (WHO), almost five million deaths worldwide
Microorganisms produce a wide variety of natural products that can be used as active agents to treat diseases such as infections or cancer. The blueprints for these molecules can be found in the
Two DZIF junior scientists—Prof Philipp Schommers and Dr Alexander Simonis—have been honoured with silver medals by the Walter Siegenthaler Society for their fundamental medical research in the field
Gram-negative bacteria are naturally insensitive to many antibiotics due to their additional outer membrane. In addition, the bacteria have acquired resistance to clinically used antibiotics in recent decades, resulting in multidrug-resistant bacteria. Novel classes of antibiotics are needed to ...
Prof. Tanja Schneider, Head of the Institute of Pharmaceutical Microbiology at the University Hospital Bonn (UKB) and Deputy Coordinator of the “New Antibiotics” research area at the German Center for
Antibacterial drugs are important for treating infections. However, increasing bacterial resistance to current drugs—making them ineffective or only partially effective—means that new drugs are
