The news is full of terms like superbug, post-antibiotic era, and abbreviations like MRSA. They all refer to various aspects of antibiotic resistance—the ability of bacteria to out-maneuver the drugs ...

The Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute (ITDI) at Ohio University turned science into art recently, hosting a painting ...

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In 2021, the World Health Organization declared antibiotic resistance a global health threat. Yet due to major culprits this threat is still striking in 2023. According to some estimates, ...

He had had no hospital history, had fairly robust health and had no co-morbidities. Yet none of the antibiotics prescribed ...

In a comparative study, researchers describe how two notable pathogens -- Escherichia coli and Acinetobacter baumannii -- employ distinctly different tools to fend off antibiotic attack by two ...

A team of researchers has discovered that latent antimicrobial resistance is more widespread across the world than known ...

Antibiotic resistance is a growing global crisis, particularly in India, where infections are increasingly defying common ...

Aminoglycosides are antibiotics effective against a wide range of bacteria such as Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa ...

Plasmids are self-replicating genetic elements that float separately from a bacterium’s own chromosomes. Plasmids evolve ...

Antibiotics are supposed to wipe out bacteria, yet the drugs can sometimes hand microbes an unexpected advantage. A new study from Rutgers Health (NJ, USA) shows that ciprofloxacin, a staple treatment ...

Scientists engineered phages to act as scaffolds to carry silver nanoparticles. Together, the two bacteria-killing components ...