This article released by the National Institutes of Health explains a study, published in the journal Circulation and supported by four agencies of the NIH, reports that periodontal bacteria are a strong, possible precursor for the development of cardiovascular disease.

Penicillin was considered a medical miracle. It became famous during the Second World War because it quickly eliminated the biggest wartime killer, the infected wounds. It is the product of the soil mold known as Penicillium. It crippled many types of disease-causing bacteria. Four years after its mass-production in 1943, microbes began to appear that […]

An article about airborne multidrug-resistant bacteria that is found isolated from a concentrated swine feeding operation. It was noted that the use of nontherapeutic levels of antibiotics in swine production can choose for antibiotic resistance in commensal and pathogenic bacteria in swine. As a result therefore, retail pork products, as well as surface and groundwaters […]

A resistant bacteria is responsible for so-called hospital-acquired pneumonia that inevitably results to death. Patients with hospital-acquired pneumonia caused by highly resistant bacteria are twice as likely to die as patients infected with other, less-resistant bacteria, according to a new Brazilian study.