Beta-lactam antibiotics are the most widely used class of drugs for the treatment of bacterial infections. They include penicillin and its derivatives, such as methicillin and amoxicillin, as well as ...

The enzymes that degrade the beta-lactam antibiotics are produced and anchored within a bacterium's outer membrane. This ...

Qpex presented the results of several clinical trials of xeruborbactam in tandem with established beta-lactam antibiotics at last year’s ID Week Meeting in Washington DC. These will slot into ...

For example, the synthesis of certain antibiotics, beta-lactam antibiotics, requires certain molecules in large quantities, and getting enough of these molecules has historically been difficult.

The most-used class of antibiotics in the world, which includes common drugs like penicillin, are beta-lactam antibiotics. This is also the class of antibiotics that bacteria are most likely to have ...

The FDA has given the green light to Exblifep, based on long-established beta-lactam antibiotic cefepime and a new extended-spectrum beta-lactamase inhibitor (BLI) called enmetazobactam ...

Cristinziano et al. report the use of bacteriophages and dual beta lactam antibiotics to treat a patient with a Mycobacterium abscessus sternal wound infection. One of the phages was ...

Beta-lactamase is an enzyme that will allow transformed bacteria to be resistant to antibiotics that have a beta-lactam ring. Thus, in order to identify bacteria that have been transformed with pGLO, ...