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Researchers unravel the mechanism of teixobactin at the atomic level

Researchers explored the mechanisms underlying the bactericidal action of teixobactin at an atomic level.

8 Aug 2022

Early-life acquisition of antibiotic resistance in neonates from developing countries

Every year, almost 7 million potentially serious bacterial infections are estimated to occur in newborns, resulting in more than 550,000 annual neonatal deaths.

4 Aug 2022

New trial offers double the traditional course of antibiotics for patients with life threatening infections

Hospital patients who develop infections where 10% of sufferers die will be offered double the traditional course of antibiotics in a new trial.

1 Aug 2022

IVI successfully completes the '2022 Introductory Course for Biologics Development and Manufacturing'

The International Vaccine Institute (IVI) successfully completed the '2022 Introductory Course for Biologics Development and Manufacturing' on July 29 to train 106 participants from 24 low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and 32 from the Republic of Korea.

29 Jul 2022

New breakthrough shows antimicrobial resistance is more evolved than previously recognized

Researchers have discovered a significant and previously unknown mechanism that many bacteria use to resist antibiotics.

29 Jul 2022

Phage therapeutics can be used to fight multidrug-resistant pathogens

Scientists with the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences were among those providing the biochemical tools needed to help save a man's life through a unique emergency intervention in 2016.

27 Jul 2022

The state of antimicrobial resistance in the United States immediately following the 2020 peaks of the COVID-19 pandemic

Researchers assessed the impact of COVID-19 on antimicrobial resistance.

18 Jul 2022

As Big Pharma loses interest in new antibiotics, infections are only growing stronger

Forget covid-19, monkeypox, and other viruses for the moment and consider another threat troubling infectious disease specialists: common urinary tract infections, or UTIs, that lead to emergency room visits and even hospitalizations because of the failure of oral antibiotics.

15 Jul 2022

Acknowledging AMR in regulatory frameworks for drug approvals could improve the availability of new antibiotics

The appropriate use of existing antibiotics and the development of new antibiotics targeting drug-resistant infections can slow the emergence, spread, and consequences of antimicrobial resistance (AMR); however, antibiotic research and development (R&D) has not responded to the urgent need for new antibiotics.

15 Jul 2022

COVID-19 pandemic pushes back years of progress made in fighting antimicrobial resistance

The COVID-19 pandemic pushed back years of progress made in combating antimicrobial resistance (AR) in the United States.

14 Jul 2022

Researchers unravel mechanism that underlies failure of staph vaccine trials

For the most part, the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus is common and harmless, posing no threat to humans with whom they coexist.

7 Jul 2022

New study discloses the reason behind the disappearance of highly infectious cholera variant

A new study reveals why a highly infectious variant of the cholera bug, which caused large disease outbreaks in the early 1990s, did not cause the eighth cholera pandemic as feared – but instead unexpectedly disappeared.

5 Jul 2022

LSHTM and Reckitt launch new Forum to advance understanding of hygiene

The Reckitt Hygiene Forum, which aims to advance understanding of hygiene as the foundation of public health, has been launched as part of a five-year partnership between the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and Reckitt.

29 Jun 2022

Drug-resistant typhoid needs to be treated as a global problem

The bacteria that causes typhoid fever is becoming increasingly resistant to common antibiotics used to treat the disease, with resistant strains spreading to hundreds of countries in the past three decades, new analysis shows.

29 Jun 2022

Shapeshifting behavior of E. coli may offer clues to combat urinary tract infections

Urinary tract infections are both very common and potentially very dangerous. More than half of all Australian women will suffer from a UTI in their lifetime, and nearly one in three women will have an infection requiring treatment with antibiotics before the age of 24.

28 Jun 2022

Antimicrobial Resistance News and Research

Researchers unravel the mechanism of teixobactin at the atomic level

Early-life acquisition of antibiotic resistance in neonates from developing countries

New trial offers double the traditional course of antibiotics for patients with life threatening infections

IVI successfully completes the '2022 Introductory Course for Biologics Development and Manufacturing'

New breakthrough shows antimicrobial resistance is more evolved than previously recognized

Phage therapeutics can be used to fight multidrug-resistant pathogens

The state of antimicrobial resistance in the United States immediately following the 2020 peaks of the COVID-19 pandemic

As Big Pharma loses interest in new antibiotics, infections are only growing stronger

Acknowledging AMR in regulatory frameworks for drug approvals could improve the availability of new antibiotics

COVID-19 pandemic pushes back years of progress made in fighting antimicrobial resistance

Researchers unravel mechanism that underlies failure of staph vaccine trials

New study discloses the reason behind the disappearance of highly infectious cholera variant

LSHTM and Reckitt launch new Forum to advance understanding of hygiene

Drug-resistant typhoid needs to be treated as a global problem

Shapeshifting behavior of E. coli may offer clues to combat urinary tract infections

Study links post-COVID symptoms with alterations in gut microbiota

Research may open door to the design of a better structured rabies vaccine

Extensively drug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae strain recently identified in Austria

Research reveals a potential Achilles heel in the protective layers surrounding Gram-negative bacteria

Study reveals how common drug-resistant superbug responds to ‘last resort’ antibiotic

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