Antibiotics

Hospital-acquired infections are often hard to treat because the corresponding pathogens become increasingly resistant against antibiotics. The bacterium Acinetobacter baumannii is a growing threat, and there is great pressure to devise novel therapeutic approaches to combat it. Bioinformaticians from Goethe University Frankfurt and Research Unit FOR2251 of the German Research…

Researchers have discovered a previously unknown mechanism by which bacteria share their genetic material through virus parasites. The insights could help scientists to better understand how bacteria rapidly adapt and evolve, and how they become more virulent and resistant to antibiotics. n a study published today in Cell, one of…

Honey from the Australian honeypot ant (Camponotus inflatus) may have medicinal properties that fight infection. While this has been known among Australia’s indigenous peoples for thousands of years, Western science has now formally studied the organic substance’s antimicrobial properties in a recent study published in PeerJ. The interest in using…

In some ways, Melanie Lawrence is living a future that awaits us all. She carries bacteria that's resistant to nearly every antibiotic, and is allergic or intolerant to the rest. Now when she gets an infection, which she does every few months, she has to hope her immune system can…

Former West Bengal CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee being brought to a city hospital on July 29, 2023. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Former West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was on Saturday admitted to a city hospital after acute respiratory distress. Mr. Bhattacharjee was brought to the health facility in an…

Antibiotic treatment provided "minimal" benefit for children with acute sinusitis and was accompanied by more cases of clinically significant diarrhea, researchers reported. In a randomized trial of kids ages 2 to 11 years, mean symptom scores during the first 10 days were significantly lower in those who received amoxicillin and…

Scientists at the University of Adelaide have repurposed a failed tuberculosis antibiotic as a potent herbicide capable of tackling two invasive weeds prevalent in Australia without harming human or bacterial cells. This approach, involving structural modifications of the molecule to block weed growth, could revolutionize herbicide development and provide a…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Scientists have combined two light wavelengths to deactivate a bacterium that is invulnerable to some of the world's most widely used antibiotics, giving hope that the regime could be adapted as a potential disinfectant treatment. Under the guidance of project leader Dr. Gale Brightwell, scientists at…

Health officials in Victoria have reported an alarming increase in cases of shigellosis, a bacterial infection caused by Shigella, that are resistant to crucial antibiotics.  An advisory issued by Victoria’s Chief Health Officer Adjunct Clinical Professor Brett Sutton, said that an increasing number of cases of antibiotic-resistant Shigellosis was being…

The U.S. cannot begin to tackle the problem of antimicrobial resistance without first changing the way antibiotics are reimbursed, experts argued during a Senate hearing on Tuesday. "Antibiotics ... are curative life-saving drugs," said Helen Boucher, MD, of Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, who spoke on behalf of…