The emergence of multiple drug resistance in tuberculosis (TB) has led to increased interest in determining the rifampicin and isoniazid susceptibility rapidly for management of individual cases as ...

A new study published in the journal of Infectious Disorders - Drug Targets revealed that Licorice extract gel has strong ...

The global issue of antimicrobial resistance has been called a “slow motion catastrophe” resulting from the excessive and often inappropriate use of antibiotics to fight bacterial infections. 1 A long ...

Future Microbiol. 2013;8(4):537-547. There are many standardized conventional methods for determining antimicrobial susceptibility. However, most are slow and laborious and some bacteria ...

Scientists from the Ineos Oxford Institute for antimicrobial research (IOI) have developed a new screening method to tackle bacterial resistance to the tetracycline class of antibiotics. The results ...

Tannin which was extracted from barks of Rhizophora apiculata was further separated into hydrolysable and condensed tannin. The results of the study revealed that only hydrolysable tannin showed ...