Even in the case of uncomplicated infections, the body prepares itself early on for the possibility of a more severe course. A research team has now uncovered this mechanism. The scientists showed ...

Parts of the newly introduced single-stranded ... Once bacteriophage assembly is complete, the bacterial cell breaks open, and the newly assembled bacteriophages are released into the environment.

Antibiotics treat bacterial infections in a few different ways that involve disrupting various parts of the way bacteria survive and multiply in the human body. Bacteria have cell walls that help ...