Antibiotics

VA hospitals used more antibiotics in the first 5 months of 2020, which reversed declines in antibiotic use in recent years, a researcher said. Days of therapy per 1,000 days present rose to 631 in January-May 2020, the highest since 2016 when it was 630 days per 1,000, reported Matthew…

With the modified agar plate CombiANT it is possible to do high-speed tests in order to see how bacteria react to different combinations of antibiotics. Credit: Nikos Fatsis-Kavalopoulos Researchers at Uppsala University have developed a new method to determine — rapidly, easily and cheaply — how effective two antibiotics combined…

Seven in 10 Americans are concerned about the presence of chemical products in food, according to a survey. The poll by Mérieux NutriSciences and bioMérieux found 70 percent of respondents were troubled about this topic that covers pesticides, antibiotics and additives. Two thirds were concerned about bacteria such as Salmonella and…

Of all the edible creatures in the sea, America’s favorite is the shrimp. We gorge upon their flesh to the tune of 4.4 pounds per person per year. Accordingly, the business of shrimp is oceanic: In 2017, the amount of shrimp imported to the United States grew to 1.5 billion…

Eugene Rosenberg, a coral microbiologist, ran into a rather large problem in the early 2000s. While working at the University of Tel Aviv in Israel, he discovered that he couldn’t replicate his own breakthrough findings from a decade earlier. What seemed like a potentially devastating failure at the time would…

This photomicrograph reveals cocci-shaped Enterococcus sp. bacteria taken from a pneumonia patient. Enterococcus sp. is a common, gram-positive bacterium that can normally be found in the bowel and female genital tract. These bacteria can be spread by fecal-oral transmission, contact with infected body fluids or contact with contaminated surfaces. Credit:…

,September 11, 2020 Butterflied Chicken with Miso, Lemonade & Beer The Bare Bird chicken products are 100 per cent antibiotic-free, accredited free-range and raised on a plant-based diet containing no animal by-products, antibiotics, hormones or steroids. The Bare Bird creator, John Hazeldene, says his family has always been at the…

IMAGE: The paper was developed by the Global Hygiene Council's panel of public health and AMR experts, following a scientific meeting in London 2019. view more  Credit: The Global Hygiene Council According to the Global Hygiene Council's (GHC) public health experts, following a risk-based approach to home hygiene is essential to…

Broad-spectrum antibiotics can't tell the difference between good and bad bacteria, and will affect many types indiscriminately.Author of the article:Sylvie Ouellette  •  Special to Montreal GazettePublishing date:Sep 07, 2020  •   •  3 minute readBiofilm of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The advent of superbugs, bacteria that are resistant to every antibiotic currently available,…

- Free Online Event - Using hydrogen sulfide (H2S), scientists from the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) have developed a new way to reverse antibiotic resistance in some bacteria. By adding H2S-releasing compounds to Acinetobacter baumannii, scientists found that instead of antibiotic tolerance, exogenous H2S sensitized the A.…