Antibiotic Resistance
- November 23, 2019
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Antibiotic resistance is a larger public health threat than most people realize. And, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports about half of all antibiotics in outpatient settings are...
Read more- November 18, 2019
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Antibiotics are facing an existential crisis less than a century after their introduction. The bacteria-fighting drugs are becoming less effective as a result of their overuse in both humans and...
Read more- November 13, 2019
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by Allison L. Hicks, Stephen M. Kissler, Marc Lipsitch, Yonatan H. Grad The sensitivity of genotype-based diagnostics that predict antimicrobial susceptibility is limited by the extent to which they detect...
Read more- November 1, 2019
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Public Health England (PHE) is cheering about a significant fall in the number of antibiotic prescriptions in England over the five years between 2014 and 2019, when it has dropped...
Read more- October 30, 2019
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A new study has revealed the underlying mechanism of development of antibiotic resistance among Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa). Pseudomonas is known to cause severe and often life threatening infections in...
Read more- October 26, 2019
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by Jeff Maltas, Kevin B. Wood Evolved resistance to one antibiotic may be associated with "collateral" sensitivity to other drugs. Here, we provide an extensive quantitative characterization of collateral effects...
Read more- October 24, 2019
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by Kyle J. Card, Thomas LaBar, Jasper B. Gomez, Richard E. Lenski Populations often encounter changed environments that remove selection for the maintenance of particular phenotypic traits. The resulting genetic...
Read more- October 23, 2019
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A startling presentation at UEG Week 2019, in Barcelona, reveals that the gut microbiome is at high risk for damage each time we use a drug from one or more...
Read more- October 21, 2019
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Antibiotic resistance poses a grave challenge to many previously curable infectious diseases. At present, antibiotic resistance is proving to increase at a much faster rate compared to the development of...
Read more- September 21, 2019
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A new study found that antibiotic resistance now affects more animals in many countries, which may contribute to a large-scale food supply problem. Source link
Read more- September 18, 2019
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Resistance to antibiotics could be moving from humans to animals, research by a Clemson University professor has shown. The research details results that demonstrate reverse zoonosis, a process by which...
Read more- September 11, 2019
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Very preterm infants are often sick and require antibiotic treatment to save their lives. However, when this form of therapy lasts for 20 months or more, it may affect the...
Read more- September 5, 2019
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The River Thames is rapidly becoming a breeding pool for antibiotic-resistant bacteria, according to a new study, which underlines the urgent need to cut down the amount of antibiotics currently...
Read more- September 3, 2019
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Scientists have discovered how Klebsiella pneumoniae evolves to become resistant to carbapenem antibiotics. Source link
Read more- August 15, 2019
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Antibiotic resistance is a big threat to global health, and a growing number of infections are now becoming harder to treat. The usual treatments, like antibiotics used to treat them,...
Read more- August 15, 2019
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Staphylococcus aureus bacteria are a major cause of serious infections that often persist despite antibiotic treatment, but scientists at the UNC School of Medicine have now discovered a way to...
Read more- July 11, 2019
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Antibiotic resistance is a growing global concern. Two new resistance-proof antibiotics have been created at the Inserm and Université de Rennes 1. Source link
Read more- July 4, 2019
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As antibiotic resistance is growing and posing a threat on public health, developing new antibiotics has become more urgent than ever. Source link
Read more- June 27, 2019
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by Orna Dahan, Bat-Shahar Dorfman, Serkan Sayin, Brittany Rosener, Tiffany Hua, Anat Yarden, Amir Mitchell Technological breakthroughs in the past two decades have ushered in a new era of biomedical...
Read more- June 25, 2019
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Researchers have revealed that plant foods may be transmitting antibiotic resistance to the gut microbiome. Source link
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