Antibiotic resistance is a growing health crisis. Do you know the facts? While the world’s attention remains focused on battling COVID-19, another global health crisis is intensifying — and it’s one that could change the way we treat simple infections, like strep...
Superbugs can leave doctors with few options for treatment. Here’s how these pesky bacteria are created, and the ways that scientists are working to fight back. In 1928, microbiologist Alexander Fleming noticed something peculiar while examining the petri dishes...
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are poised to become a major health threat in the coming decades, but now it turns out that new antibiotics might have been inside us all along. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania used a “search” algorithm to find dozens of...
Bacteria on medical implants can be highly resistant to antibiotics and account for a large proportion of hospital-acquired infections. Researchers have created the first “living medicine” to treat bacteria that is resistant to antibiotics and grows on the surface of...
What is Antibiotic Resistance? Antibiotic resistance is the ability of bacteria to withstand the killing power of antibiotics. In other words, an antibiotic that previously cured an infection does not work as well anymore, or may not work at all, to kill the bacteria....
Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is a major global health issue.Researchers have found that as some bacteria develop resistance to one antibiotic, they can develop sensitivity to another at the same time.Switching between these antibiotics may be one way of...
Although the world is focused on the COVID-19 pandemic, there are many other dangerous pathogens still out there, like Yersinia pestis, which causes plague—the deadly disease that killed tens of millions of people during the infamous Black Death in the 14th century....
Amsterdam; The Netherlands / Helsinki; Finland (22 May, 2021): AMR Insights and The Global Antibiotic Resistance Foundation (TGARF) are happy to announce the global collaboration on combating Antimicrobial resistance (AMR). For professionals in the ‘One Health’...
The development of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a natural process that has occurred long before the introduction of antibiotics to healthcare. However the overreliance and misuse of antibiotics has significantly accelerated the development and spread of...
Larry H. Bernstein, MD, FCAP, CuratorLPBI Quantum dots target infections Photoactivated QDs Kill Antibiotic-Resistant ‘Superbugs’ A technique for treating bacterial infections has successfully used light-activated quantum dots (QDs) to kill multiple...
