The new inquiry, which comes from, signals why earlier attempts to develop a vaccine against the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus have failed. The research indicates that a new approach for vaccine ...

Researchers engineered an injectable silica-based scaffold that trains the immune system to attack S. aureus on medical implants, cutting bacterial load dramatically and even clearing infection ...

Driven by the overuse of antimicrobials, pathogens are quickly building up resistances to once-successful treatments. It's estimated that antimicrobial-resistant infections killed more than 1 million ...

Immunologists from Trinity College Dublin have unearthed a key piece of the MRSA vaccine puzzle by identifying specific ‘helper’ cells whose role in the immune response is critical in affecting ...

An artistic recreation of MRSA. Michigan State University researcher Xuefei Huang is developing new vaccine science in the fight against antibiotic resistance. Driven by the overuse of antimicrobials, ...

Scientists have discovered the mechanism which allows the superbug methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) to become highly resistant to antibiotics, paving the way for new approaches to ...

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) causes nearly 500,000 hospitalizations and 19,000 deaths a year in the United States. Scientists are now a step closer to ...

Folks, while I was caught in travel hell, some excellent stories and blogposts were released. Here's a quick round-up of recommendations for a rainy weekend: For those of us concerned about MRSA ...

A protein-free vaccine shows promising preclinical results in supercharging immune responses to a range of drug-resistant ‘superbugs’. The risk of developing a healthcare-associated infection (HAI) is ...

ZURICH (Reuters) - U.S. drugmaker Merck & Co is to discontinue a major trial of a key vaccine from Intercell designed to protect against serious hospital infections, the Austrian biotech firm said on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Antibiotic medicine has been a godsend, saving countless lives. But health experts know that, for now ...

FIG 1 Activation of the human monoclonal B cell line MAVER-1 by SpA. MAVER-1 B cells (5 × 105) were cultured for 2 h in media with and without supplementation with 1% FBS and either SpA or SpAMUT (1 ...