Microbiologist Karin Hjort discusses what heteroresistance is and how it could change the way we treat bacterial infections. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Microbiologists are on a quest to unravel a rare phenomenon involved in antibiotic resistance and how it may change our understanding of infections. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

And it is more common than we know. Every year, there are an estimated 2 million cases of antibiotic resistant infections and 23,000 deaths due to overwhelming infection that the body cannot fight on ...

In a new article published in Nature Communications, researchers from Uppsala Antibiotic Center, Uppsala University and SciLifeLab describe a fundamental mechanism of antibiotic resistance. What ...

Imagine you develop an infection -- anything from a typical urinary tract infection to tuberculosis. Now imagine there's nothing doctors can do. The discovery of antibiotics changed medicine in the ...

Pseudomonas bacteria infected by different mutations of a jumbo phage. The dot in the middle is the shield created by the phage to protect its DNA after it has infected the bacterial cell. Image by ...

On June 30, 1924, Calvin Coolidge Jr. played a tennis match against his older brother John at the White House. It was hot and humid, and the sockless 16-year-old developed a small blister on the third ...

A groundbreaking antibiotic discovery might finally tip the balance in the global fight against drug-resistant bacteria. Scientists have unveiled a rare molecule with a fresh way to stop dangerous ...

A one-dose oral drug called zoliflodacin has proven highly effective against gonorrhoea in a major international trial. The ...

Infectious disease specialist Brad Spellberg, MD, was on consult at Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, when he got a panicked call from the ...

Scientists uncovered how the resistance protein FusB deflects fusidic acid in bacteria, using atomic-level imaging to reveal a crowbar-like resistance mechanism. Antibiotic resistance is a global ...