When you are sick with a bacterial infection, your doctor will have you take medicines for a certain number of days to feel better. These medicines may be grape- or bubble gum-flavored liquids, or ...

Irrational antibiotic use damages mucus barrier, leading to intestinal inflammation, as shown in recent Science Advances ...

Some diseases, like urinary tract infections (UTIs), blood infections, pneumonia, and typhoid, are becoming harder to treat ...

Antibiotics are often used in livestock farming to promote growth and prevent diseases. Their overuse in animals can lead to ...

Researchers have long flagged antimicrobial resistance as a public health concern, but this study is the first to analyze ...

One of the ways that bacteria can evolve resistance to antibiotics is by using structures in their membranes that are ...

Antibiotic-resistant Enterobacteriaceae such as E. coli and Klebsiella bacteria are common in hospitals, where they can proliferate in the gut of patients and cause dangerous systemic infections ...

Researchers have found Staphylococcus aureus can adapt to vancomycin while overcoming its fitness cost, threatening the ...

Antimicrobial resistance is already killing millions around the globe, but deaths could surge by 68 per cent between 2021 and ...

New analysis indicates more than one million people died from drug-resistant infections globally each year between 1990 and ...

Drug-resistant infections kill 1·14 million people every year,1 surpassing deaths caused by HIV/AIDS and malaria combined and making antimicrobial resistance (AMR) a leading global killer. The ...