A newly discovered mechanism renders antibiotic-resistant bacteria vulnerable by disabling both their individual resistance ...

October 1, 2010 — Cystic fibrosis (CF) exacerbations are linked to chronic infection with the bacterium Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, according to the results of a study reported online today in the ...

Researchers have found a remarkable global spread of strains of a multi-resistant bacterium that can cause severe infections -- Stenotrophomonas maltophilia. The study provides for the first time a ...

Exacerbations in cystic fibrosis, or CF, may be linked to chronic infection with a bacterium called Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, which was previously thought to simply colonize the CF lung. The ...

Recent tabloid hype over the "newly emerging superbug", Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, is misplaced, say experts in this week's issue of the BMJ. Headlines about S maltophilia including "no antibiotics ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Stenotrophomonas maltophilia was unexpectedly identified as the most common carbapenem-resistant, gram-negative ...

Bacterial populations diversify during infection into distinct subpopulations that coexist within the human body. Yet, it is unknown to what extent subpopulations adapt to location-specific selective ...

Researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil have described a system present in a species of opportunistic bacterium found in hospital environments that injects a cocktail of toxins into ...