Researchers from Aston University and Birmingham Children’s Hospital have developed a new medication regimen that could successfully treat a bacterial infection that could prove fatal to patients with ...

Cystic fibrosis (CF) affects over 100,000 people worldwide and is caused by one of several known mutations in the CFTR (cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator) gene. The CFTR protein is a ...

Scientists have been able to track how a multi-drug resistant organism is able to evolve and spread widely among cystic fibrosis patients - showing that it can evolve rapidly within an individual ...

People with cystic fibrosis are prone to infections because of the thick mucus that clogs their airways. They are also prone to infections because their mucus and airway liquid does not have the same ...

Using a virus to kill a bacterium may seem like going backward in medicine and harkens back to the early 20 th century when Julius Wagner-Juarreg used malaria to cure neurosyphilis (a feat that won ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor is an approved treatment for children and ...

For young people with cystic fibrosis, lung infection with Staphylococcus aureus, MRSA, is common and is treated with antibiotics in the hope that this will prevent a decline in lung function. However ...

Southampton researchers have demonstrated a quick and accurate method to diagnose bacterial infections. The technique has the potential to detect infections in cystic fibrosis patients in minutes ...