Excessive use of antibiotics in medicine, it seems, is not the only factor driving resistant bugs. The new research also ...

Antibiotic resistance is often associated with hospitals and the overuse of antibiotics in agriculture. Both are genuine ...

The study was conducted across wild, urban and rural areas, highlighting the widespread nature of antibiotic resistance. View ...

Bacterial pathogens can cause serious infections. So many of them are becoming resistant to the effects of antibiotics that resistant bacteria now contribute to the deaths of almost 5 million people ...

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 ...

Research has shed important new light on the enemies-turned-allies that allow bacteria to exchange genes, including those ...

Red foxes and birds regularly cross between human-dominated and natural ecosystems. For this reason, they may be heralds of ...

Antimicrobial resistance, or AMR, especially resistance against drugs critically important for human medicine, is an ...

New antibiotics have not reduced mortality in drug-resistant infections, with treatment delays and mismatched therapy still ...

Metagenomic libraries have been prepared to screen for the presence of antibiotic resistance genes in tiny environmental samples. Scientists from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign College of ...

Plastic is a cheap and durable material that has been adapted and applied in innumerable ways. Vast amounts of plastic has been produced in recent decades, mainly for stuff that quickly gets thrown ...

The development of new antibiotics to treat superbugs and other bacterial infections is a global priority, with the rate of ...