Antibiotic resistance is becoming an accelerating crisis because of the overuse and misuse of antibiotics over many years.

A new perspective article in Biocontaminant proposes a three-part evolutionary framework for using bacteriophages to better ...

Antibiotic resistance is one of the most urgent threats to global health, linked to an estimated 4.7 million deaths worldwide ...

By 2050, scientists estimate that antibiotic-resistant infections will be associated with more than 8 million deaths around ...

Sight-threatening antibiotic-resistant eye infections are becoming a significant threat to vision in dogs, cats and horses, ...

Companies are aggressively marketing home medical kits containing prescription antibiotics and other drugs for self-treatment ...

Tackling antibiotic resistance likely requires a multifaceted approach. Better and faster point-of-care testing, new treatments, and antimicrobial stewardship could hold promise for future control.

In 1928, physician and microbiologist Alexander Fleming returned from holiday to find a petri dish of Staphylococcus bacteria covered in mould, which, he was astonished to note, stopped the bacteria ...

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Imagine going to the hospital for a bacterial ear infection and hearing your doctor say, "We're out of options." It may sound dramatic, but antibiotic resistance is pushing that scenario closer to ...

New figures from the UKHSA show that antibiotic-resistant infections in the UK have reached nearly 400 new cases every week, ...

India has achieved a major milestone with the development of Zaynich , a breakthrough antibiotic created by Mumbai-based ...