The news is full of terms like superbug, post-antibiotic era, and abbreviations like MRSA. They all refer to various aspects of antibiotic resistance—the ability of bacteria to out-maneuver the drugs ...

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He had had no hospital history, had fairly robust health and had no co-morbidities. Yet none of the antibiotics prescribed ...

In a comparative study, researchers describe how two notable pathogens -- Escherichia coli and Acinetobacter baumannii -- employ distinctly different tools to fend off antibiotic attack by two ...

The Infectious and Tropical Disease Institute (ITDI) at Ohio University turned science into art recently, hosting a painting ...

In 2021, the World Health Organization declared antibiotic resistance a global health threat. Yet due to major culprits this threat is still striking in 2023. According to some estimates, ...

Antibiotics are supposed to wipe out bacteria, yet the drugs can sometimes hand microbes an unexpected advantage. A new study from Rutgers Health (NJ, USA) shows that ciprofloxacin, a staple treatment ...

Students at NWTC are looking for ways to fight antibiotic resistant bacteria as part of an eight-year project with Tiny Earth ...

Antibiotic resistance is a growing global crisis, particularly in India, where infections are increasingly defying common ...

Multiple studies show that antibiotic resistance is making gonorrhoea much more complicated, and sometimes impossible, to ...

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Amoxicillin can be an option for treating severe acne, especially when other antibiotics cannot be used due to allergies or ...