Shape-Shifting Antibiotics – A New Weapon Against Drug-Resistant Superbugs
Antibiotic resistance is a major public health threat, ranked as one of the top 10 by the World Health Organization. Every year, in the United…
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Highly Antibiotic-Resistant Superbug Strain Discovered To Be Able To Infect Humans
A strain of MRSA that emerged in pigs and is highly antibiotic-resistant can spread to humans. According to recent research, pig farming’s extensive use of…
Spectacular Chain-Mail Structure: The Protective Armor of Superbug C. difficile Revealed
Spectacular structure of chain-mail may explain the success of C.diff at defending itself against antibiotics and immune system molecules. The spectacular structure of the protective…
Infectious Diseases Experts: Superbugs on Track to Kill More People Than COVID-19
Without urgent action superbugs will kill 22,000 Australians a year by 2040 A comprehensive national database is needed to capture infection rates and arrest the…
“Game Changing” Antibiotic is Capable of Killing Superbugs
A “game-changing” new antibiotic which is capable of killing superbugs has been successfully synthesized and used to treat an infection for the first time —…
Anti-Bacterial Virus Discovered in a Lake Successfully Treats Antibiotic-Resistant Infection
An anti-bacterial virus found in a Connecticut lake successfully treated an 80-year-old doctor with a life-threatening antibiotic-resistant infection in his heart, a Yale team of…
Alternative Therapeutics Provide an Indirect Approach to Beating Superbugs
Got a sore throat? The doctor may write a quick prescription for penicillin or amoxicillin, and with the stroke of a pen, help diminish public…
MetaCherchant Software Reveals New Causes of Antibiotic Resistance
Scientists from ITMO University and Center of Physical and Chemical Medicine developed an algorithm capable of tracking the spread of antibiotic resistance genes in gut…
FDA Approved Tapeworm Drug Shows Promise Against MRSA
New research from Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital reveal that a common tapeworm drug (which is already approved for use in humans) effectively treated…
MIT Engineers Develop New Technologies to Battle Superbugs
Using a gene-editing system that can disable any target gene, MIT engineers have shown that they can selectively kill bacteria carrying harmful genes that confer…
Whole-Genome Analysis Identifies the Source of a Recent MRSA Outbreak
In Cambridge, UK, there was a superbug outbreak at a special-care neonatal unit that lasted several months last year. Thanks to insights gained from whole-genome…
NDM-1 Superbug Discovered in a Cat in the USA
The Indian superbug NDM-1, which has a gene that encodes an enzyme conferring resistance to almost all known antibiotics, has been found in the USA…
Brucella Blocked From Bonding With Host, Could Lead to Superbug Cure
Pathogenic bacteria without their virulent factors could be rendered harmless and eliminated by the human immune system. That’s the goal that a group of researchers…
Highest Recorded Rates of Drug Resistant Tuberculosis
Today the World Health Organization has released an updated report on the situation of drug-resistant tuberculosis around the world, and it’s reporting that drug-resistant TB…
Earliest Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Strains Were First Detected in Italy
Contrary to what was previously believed, the earliest cases of the Totally Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (TDR-TB) were not the current 12 known cases reported in Mumbai…
