Antibiotics are widely considered one of the most important advances in the history of medicine. Their introduction into clinical practice during the 1940s marked a major milestone in the control of ...

Superbugs, bacteria that are immune to multiple antibiotics, pose a great challenge to modern medicine. Researchers have now identified a weakness in the bacterial machinery that drives antibiotic ...

(Beyond Pesticides, January 2, 2025) Adding to the body of scientific literature on the fast escalating antibiotic resistance crisis is a study published by Chinese scientists in Environmental Science ...

Once a medical miracle, antibiotics are now losing their power. Across the world, common infections are becoming harder-and sometimes impossible-to treat.

Even with correct antibiotic doses, some bacterial infections return because persister cells survive treatment by entering ...

Researchers studying antimicrobial-resistant E. coli – the leading cause of human death due to antimicrobial resistance worldwide – have identified a mechanism in dogs that may render multiple ...

Incomplete water disinfection may unintentionally accelerate the spread of antibiotic resistance genes in aquatic ...

Metagenomic libraries have been prepared to screen for the presence of antibiotic resistance genes in tiny environmental samples. Scientists from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign College of ...

The antibiotics typically used to treat traveler’s diarrhea are becoming less effective, researchers recently reported in ...