Oral metronidazole and vancomycin have been compared to determine if one agent is more efficacious than the other. A prospective, randomized, controlled clinical trial compared metronidazole 250 ...
Tinidazole is a structural analog of metronidazole and has been available in Europe for more than 2 decades. After activation, its toxic intermediates covalently bind to DNA, resulting in DNA ...
Corals and other marine invertebrates host diverse microbes that remain poorly characterized, especially in the deep sea. Here the authors discover a new clade of bacteria with uniquely ...
An international team of researchers has found that an antibiotic commonly prescribed for patients with liver disease, called rifaximin, has led to the global emergence of an almost untreatable ...