Gram-positive bacilli infections are treated with antibiotics. Penicillin, cloxacillin, and erythromycin treat over 90% of gram-positive bacteria.

Experts divide them into Gram-positive cocci or bacilli, depending on their shape. Key characteristics of Gram-positive bacteria. Gram-positive bacteria differ from Gram-negative in their structure.

A chance discovery has led to a new class of antibiotics with multiple arms that interacted with the cell wall of gram-positive bacteria, inhibiting their assembly and disarming them. “It was an ...