Scientists at the University of Liverpool have identified a single genetic change in Salmonella that is playing a key role in the devastating epidemic of bloodstream infections currently killing around 400,000 people each year in sub-Saharan Africa. Invasive non-typhoidal Salmonellosis (iNTS) occurs when Salmonella bacteria, which normally cause gastrointestinal illness, enter the bloodstream and spread…

Scientists at the University of Liverpool have taken another step forward in understanding the bacteria that are causing a devastating Salmonella epidemic currently killing around 400,000 people each year in sub-Saharan Africa. Published in the journal PLOS Biology and representing five years of work, researchers at the Institute of Integrative Biology have completed one of the largest bacterial comparative…

New research from the University of Liverpool, in collaboration with the Mario Negri Institute in Milan, published today in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, has identified a protein that could help patients with epilepsy respond more positively to drug therapies. Epilepsy continues to be a serious health problem and is the most common serious neurological disease.…

Good drugs for bad bugs: Simple changes to antibiotic treatment of MRSA may help beat the bacteria. Microbiologists have identified how Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) may be more effectively treated by modern-day antibiotics, if old-fashioned penicillin is also used. The team from the University of Liverpool and the National University of Ireland Galway have shown that,…

Researchers at the University of Liverpool have developed a new international guideline to help standardize how results from clinical trial studies are reported. Use of the COS-STAR guideline, which is published in PLOS Medicine, could increase the efficiency and value of clinical research across the globe. Every year, hundreds of thousands of members of the public…