WHO’s director of antimicrobial resistance, Dr Yvan Hutin, says science needs to catch up with drug-resistant bacteria.

Antibiotic resistant bacteria already cause tens of thousands of fatal infections every year, and that number is expected to continue to rise. Even while many commonly used antibiotics are becoming ...

Scientists have created a genomic blueprint for Aeromonas bacteria, which can cause antibiotic-resistant diarrheal disease—with symptoms often misidentified as cholera—in humans and animals.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis developed a novel compound that effectively clears Gram-positive bacterial infections in mice, in particular skin and soft tissue ...

Biologists have uncovered a new mode of communication inside cells that helps bacterial pathogens learn how to evade drugs. Their findings, published in the journal Nature Communications, describe how ...

In Brazil, a group of researchers supported by FAPESP created mutant forms of Salmonella to understand the mechanisms that favor colonization of the intestinal tract of chickens by these pathogenic ...

A 'happy accident' holds clues to combatting increasingly resistant strains. By Laura Baisas Published Aug 2, 2024 2:00 PM EDT Get the Popular Science daily ...

Enter fungi expert Mahmoud Ghannoum, a microbiome researcher at Case Western Reserve University and the director of the University Hospitals Center for Medical Mycology. Back in 2008, he had a hunch ...

Modern diagnostic methods allow growers to detect pathogens earlier and identify disease pressure with far greater precision than traditional testing methods.