Antibiotics are sometimes treated like medicines for any infection. A person with a sore throat, cough, fever or diarrhoea ...

Biofilms are complex microbial communities that adhere to a surface and encase themselves in a viscous matrix they produce.

Even highly antibiotic-resistant bacteria become more vulnerable when their cell wall transport system is disrupted, ...

Antibiotics made once-dangerous bacterial infections routinely treatable, but that reliability is eroding. The World Health Organization reports rising resistance across many monitored pathogen-drug ...

Key Takeaways Dogs and cats can carry antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria also found in humansNearly half of samples ...

Approximately 1.2 million people in the U.S. contract nontyphoidal Salmonella every year. The infections result in 23,000 hospitalizations and 450 deaths annually. Among the infections, more than ...

A drying patch of soil may seem far removed from a hospital ward. But scientists at Caltech found that when soil dries out, ...

A recent study led by the University of Turku, Finland, analyzed the DNA map of more than 14,000 gut metagenomes in a global dataset and found that there are differences in antibiotic resistance ...

For a patient with septic shock and a serious bacterial infection, rapid antibiotic treatment can be lifesaving. But once the ...

Streptococcus pneumoniae is a bacterial pathogen that causes life-threatening infections, including pneumonia and meningitis.

Cefepime is a fourth-generation antibiotic widely used to treat serious bacterial infections and febrile neutropenia—a fever ...

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