Mass distribution of azithromycin to preschool children twice yearly for 2 years has been shown to reduce childhood mortality in sub-Saharan Africa but at the cost of amplifying macrolide resistance.

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued a warning on the use of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) concurrently with a macrolide antibiotic such as azithromycin. The alert ...

Macrolides are an important class of antibiotics that includes drugs such as azithromycin and erythromycin, which are widely ...

Researchers captured and comparted hi-res images of ribosome structures from sensitive and resistant bacteria and report that a water molecule needed for antibiotic binding was not present in the ...

Discovering antifungals with novel mechanisms of action is essential in the fight against drug-resistant fungi, which pose a serious concern for public health. However, progress on new antifungals is ...

PR is a papulosquamous dermatosis. Classically, the condition presents with a single large lesion (herald patch). Within a few days to a few weeks, multiple additional smaller lesions appear along the ...

Researchers have combined the bacteria-killing actions of two classes of antibiotics into one, demonstrating that their new dual-action antibiotic could make bacterial resistance (almost) an ...