A new technique which slashes the time taken to diagnose microbial infections from days to minutes could help save lives and ...

Drugs that act against bacteria are mainly assessed based on how well they inhibit bacterial growth under laboratory ...

Human history was forever changed with the discovery of antibiotics in 1928. Infectious diseases such as pneumonia, tuberculosis and sepsis were widespread and lethal until antibiotics made them ...

Environmental antimicrobial resistance is turning rivers, soils, and even the air into hidden highways for "superbugs," ...

Metagenomic libraries have been prepared to screen for the presence of antibiotic resistance genes in tiny environmental samples. Scientists from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign College of ...

This approach could change the way a particular patient is treated as well as help bolster the trend of targeting more specific pathogenic bacteria, rather than continuing the broad-spectrum ...

Researchers at University Medicine Oldenburg have developed an AI tool that delivers fewer false-positive results than conventional screening methods when testing bacteria for resistance to reserve ...

Researchers evaluate effects of administering a metaphylaxis dose to 100%, 66%, 33% or 0% of high-risk beef cattle as they ...

Speaking at the World Health Assembly, authors of a new Lancet Series call for urgent global action on antimicrobial resistance (AMR), and ensuring sustainable access to antibiotics through: ...

But antibiotics have an inherent caveat: when overused, bacteria can evolve resistance to these drugs. The World Health Organization estimated that these superbugs caused 1.27 million deaths around ...