ANTIBIOTICS are widely considered one of the most important advances in the history of medicine. Their introduction into ...

A new modelling study reveals that only 7% of carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative (CRGN) bacterial infections in eight LMICs ...

Pet owners can take practical steps to minimise the risk of antimicrobial resistance in their homes. Read more at ...

Bacterial resistance negates the effect of antibiotics in the treatment of infection. Using mouse models, researchers now show that if antibiotics are administered with an enzyme called endolysin, the ...

The study, published last week in The Lancet Oncology, mined 4 years of microbiologic data and found that the proportion of ...

A major treatment gap for life-threatening carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative bacterial infections has been revealed across ...

A new study reveals that biofilms in washing machines may contain potential pathogens and antibiotic resistance genes, posing ...

Healthcare workers' uniforms washed at home might be bringing dangerous bacteria back to hospitals, creating a breeding ...

The recently discovered bacterium Staphylococcus borealis, named after the Northern Lights, turns out to be resistant to several classes of antibiotics. The elderly are especially at risk.

Birmingham scientists have identified an essential genetic code for a method called plasmid curing, which aims to "displace" ...

Researchers have developed next-generation rifamycin analogs that effectively kill both replicating and nonreplicating ...

A new screening method to tackle bacterial resistance in a type of antibiotics has been developed by researchers at Oxford ...