Scientists have discovered the mechanism by which the bacterial pathogen Shigella flexneri, the causative agent of dysentery, manipulates molecular activity to assure its survival against its host's ...

The number of people worldwide directly killed by antibiotic resistance will rise to 1.9 million a year by 2050, according to ...

Scientists predict that by 2050, nearly 40 million deaths will be caused by infections resulting from bacteria resistant to ...

Antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections often occur in patients with chronic inflammatory intestinal conditions, such as inflammatory bowel disease, and in patients who have taken antibiotics for a ...

Researchers have isolated 18 bacterial strains from stool from healthy people that could potentially be a more effective treatment for antibiotic-resistant gut infections. The team found that these ...

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

The rise in diseases like urinary tract infections, pneumonia, and typhoid, now harder to treat due to bacteria's growing ...

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

Antibiotic resistance is a global public health threat. Modern health systems rely on antibiotics to prevent and treat ...

A new paper analyzes three decades of fatalities around the world and predicts how "superbugs" will affect human health in ...

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

A team tested different combinations of bacterial strains and identified a group of eighteen that suppressed ...