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.
Bacteria of the genus Enterobacter are among the most dangerous bacteria associated with hospital infections worldwide. Some of their representatives are highly resistant to commonly used antibiotics
The hospital germ Pseudomonas aeruginosa forms biofilms, a kind of mucus layer, to protect itself from attack by the immune system or antibiotics. To form this sticky layer, as well as to successfully
With INCATE (INCubator for Antibacterial Therapies in Europe), the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) has participated in the foundation of a European initiative to take up the fight against
Helicobacter pylori is one of the top 10 bacterial threats listed by the WHO, for which treatment is becoming increasingly difficult due to rising antibiotic resistance. More than half of the world's population is chronically infected with this bacterium. H. pylori is a recognised class I carcinogen ...
Almost every second person worldwide is infected with the pathogenic bacterium Helicobacter pylori that causes chronic gastritis. In about 15 percent of infected individuals, gastric inflammation leads to peptic ulcers, and in one to two percent even to stomach cancer. Timely detection and treatment ...
How widespread is the pathogenic gastric bacterium Helicobacter pylori in the German population? In the study "Helicobacter pylori prevalence, therapy success, resistance" (HelicoPTER), for which
