Antibiotic resistance is a bacterial defense mechanism against antibiotics. It can rapidly spread from one bacterium to another. This makes antibiotics increasingly ineffective.
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The level of resistances against antibiotics is rising. This is a great challenge for physicians and scientists. Scientists within the DZIF research field “Healthcare-associated and Antibiotic-resistant bacterial Infections” aim to develop new strategies against the development and spread of resistance.
The German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) is growing: three new member establishments will now be supporting the DZIF in its research activities, the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI), the
According to figures of the World Health Organization, some 8.7 million people contracted tuberculosis in 2012 and this disease is fatal for approximately 1.3 million people throughout the world each
In the DZIF, scientists from the universities of Tübingen, Münster and Munich join forces and prepare together with the company Hyglos clinical studies on an active substance against the dreaded
An international team of researchers has discovered an antibiotic compound which is effective against a broad spectrum of pathogens. First tests have shown that it does not generate resistance. A
Researchers from the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) have confirmed the spread of a “multidrug-resistant plasmid” in a hospital. This plasmid is a mobile genetic element which can transfer
Antimicrobial resistance is a growing concern: Hospitals are increasingly being confronted with bacterial infections for which there is no cure. The frequent use of broad spectrum antibiotics, which
