When people take antibiotics, some of the dose is excreted with urine and feces and ends up in our wastewater. The presence ...

Closely related bacterial species use different strategies to build their cell walls, an international team of scientists led ...

Imagine wanting to use a phage against an antibiotic-resistant bacterial infection. The only thing standing in the way of that phage killing the bacteria and eradicating the infection might be the ...

Antibiotic resistance continues to be a challenge that we cannot ignore. Even bacteria we weren’t previously too worried are now becoming resistant to antibiotics. The unpredictable nature of ...

Colistin became available for clinical use in the 1960s, but was replaced in the 1970s with other antibiotics owing to its toxicity. [1, 4, 13] There are two forms of colistin available in the ...

Many important antibiotics are becoming less effective against bacterial infections; as bacteria continue to evolve, they gain and share resistance genes that enable them to evade the drugs. And while ...

Two studies received funding from companies that made the medicines. The types of antibiotics used were those that kill a wide range of bacteria in the intestine. Surgery was mainly performed as ...

Rapid monitoring of real bacterial metabolic perturbations to antibiotics may be helpful to better understand the mechanisms of action and more targeted treatment. In this study, the real metabolic ...

There, they interact with harmful bacteria already present in the environment. Those microbes respond by evolving a resistance to the antibiotics, thus making them harder to kill when they infect us.

A new study from Emory University addresses the growing global crisis of antibiotic-resistant infections. Many of these drug-resistant bacteria are spread through hospitals, and there are few ...