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.
The natural antibiotic Lugdunin, discovered three years ago by Tübingen DZIF researchers, attacks pathogenic bacteria in several different ways simultaneously and also interacts with the defense
A research team from the Universities of Tübingen and Göttingen as well as from the German Center for Infection Research has investigated the mode of action of a new class of antibiotics that is
Helicobacter pylori, a globally distributed gastric bacterium, is genetically highly adaptable. The DZIF team of Professor Sebastian Suerbaum at LMU has now characterized its population structure in
Some bacteria have a protective shell of cross-linked sugar molecules, which among other things, can ward off certain antibiotics. Researchers at the University of Bonn and the German Centre for
The aim of SYNERGIE, the new magazine published jointly by the German Centers of Health Research (DZG,) is to present modern medical research and provide a brief digest of the latest research findings
Every year on 24 March, we commemorate Robert Koch’s discovery of the tubercle bacillus. Almost 140 years later, tuberculosis is still the leading infectious disease with the most number of deaths
Developing a new medication usually takes more than ten years. Out of the several thousand substances investigated in basic and pre-clinical research, only one or two candidates are approved by
