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

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 ...

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

In promising experiments, phage therapy forces bacteria into a no-win dilemma that lowers their defenses against drugs they’d ...

Millions more people will die annually from antibiotic-resistant infections over the next 25 years unless steps are taken to ...

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

By 2050, around 2 million people — the majority aged over 70 — could die from drug-resistant infections each year.

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 ...

"This infection strategy may be employed by other bacteria, making this research a potential foundation for understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying various bacterial infections," said ...

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 ...