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Surfers Three Times More Likely to Have Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria in Guts

January 17, 2018

Regular surfers and bodyboarders are three times more likely to have antibiotic-resistant E. coli in their guts than non-surf...

Want to Beat Antibiotic-Resistant Superbugs? Rethink That Strep Throat Remedy

January 2, 2018

It's time to develop alternatives to antibiotics for small infections and to do so quickly

Antibiotics Resistance: Researchers Succeed to Block Genes of Resistance

November 22, 2017

A team of scientists at University of Montreal's Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine has come up with a novel a...

Closer Look at Killer T-Cell Activity Could Yield New Approach to Tackling Antibiotic Resistance

October 26, 2017

Researchers have discovered a key difference between the way immune cells attack bacteria and the way antibiotics do...

Why Bacteria 'Shapeshift' in Space

September 14, 2017

Findings of recent study may have implications for more effectively treating astronauts with bacterial infections in spa...

Antibiotic Resistance Rises in 'Lonely' Mutating Microbes

August 28, 2017

Recent study shows individual microbes—such as bacteria—found in denser microbial populations mutate much le...

New Study Links Antibiotic Resistance to Common Household Disinfectant Triclosan

July 4, 2017

Researchers made the unexpected finding that bacteria that mutated to become resistant to quinolone antibiotics also became m...

A New Approach to Battle Drug-Resistant Bacteria

June 22, 2017

Previous research has shown that pairing antibiotics can be more effective than using single drugs, but finding these perfect...

Scientists Solve 30-Year Old Mystery on How Resistance Genes Spread

June 19, 2017

Scientists have revealed that certain disease-causing bacteria get their resistance genes in a complex process involving bact...

New Antibiotic Packs a Punch against Bacterial Resistance

May 30, 2017

Researchers have discovered a way to structurally modify vancomycin to make an already-powerful version of the antibiotic eve...

A Possible Alternative to Antibiotics

May 23, 2017

Technion researchers demonstrate high effectiveness of a combination of metals and organic acids in eradicating bacteria...

Antibiotic-Resistant Microbes Date Back to 450 MYA, Well before the Age of Dinosaurs

May 15, 2017

Survival of mass extinctions helps to explain near indestructible properties of hospital "superbugs"

Scientists Studying How to Disrupt Bacteria to Treat Infections

April 14, 2017

Goal is to lessen the reliance on antibiotics

No More 'Superbugs'? Maple Syrup Extract Enhances Antibiotic Action

April 3, 2017

Researchers may have found a natural way to cut down on antibiotic use without sacrificing health

New TB Drug Candidates Developed from Soil Bacteria

March 2, 2017

TB bacteria are becoming increasingly resistant to treatments—more than 250,000 deaths in 2015 from drug-resistant infe...

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