Whakaihu Waka researchers have been part of two studies in the battle against drug resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the cause of tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis (TB) is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb) complex (MTBC), which includes M.tb as one of the causative ...

University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka researchers have been part of two groundbreaking studies in the battle against ...

Bacteria that have mutated to become particularly resistant to antibiotics often have many of these efflux pumps on their surface. To counter this defense, researchers have produced a class of ...

Scientists at the University of Cambridge have uncovered the final piece in the jigsaw revealing the structure of ‘efflux pumps’, which allow Salmonella and other disease-causing bacteria to develop ...

A particularly ingenious weapon in the bacterial arsenal is the drug efflux pump. These pumps are proteins located in the membranes of bacteria that can recognize and expel drugs that have ...

a protein that the bacterial species Staphylococcus aureus uses to pump out widely used antibiotics before they can kill them. Efflux pumps represent one mechanism by which S. aureus has evolved ...

Bacteria use something called an efflux pump, which sits in their cell membrane, to push drugs and toxins out of their cell (as illustrated in the video below). The pumps can be crucial to surviving ...

By modifying these “efflux pumps” to recognize the antibiotic, bacteria can eliminate the drug before it poisons them. As it turns out, some phages appear to use these same efflux pumps to ...

By modifying these “efflux pumps” to recognize the antibiotic, bacteria can eliminate the drug before it poisons them. As it turns out, some phages appear to use these same efflux pumps to ...