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🩸 🦠 New treatment options for bloodstream infections.

Study shows efficacy and safety of oral antibiotic therapy for Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections. 💊

Read more ➡️ https://uni.koeln/26CFN

📰 The paper was published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases 👇
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1473309923007569?via%3Dihub

#infection #blood #sepsis #saureus

@gpollara @onisillos interesting paper. I hadn't heard about #fengycins inhibiting agr and thus #saureus intestinal colonization before. I'm moderately interested a the deep dive of: Piewngam et al (2018) Pathogen elimination by probiotic #Bacillus via signalling interference

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0616-y

Check our new preprint on drug interactions in 3 Gram-positive bacterial species. Over 10,000 combinations with a plethora of novel synergies and unexpected activities of non-antibiotics against multi-drug resistant #Saureus. Heroic effort of @elisca
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.23.521747v1