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Antibiotics are drugs used to treat infections caused by bacteria and other microorganisms.

Microbes causing cystic fibrosis change rapidly within 2-3 years after first infection

A new study, recently published in Nature Communications, has looked at infections in Danish youth with CF over a period of 10 years. This is the largest longitudinal study to date of the evolution - both involving traits and genes - of the disease-causing microbes that persistently infect young CF-patients.

5 Mar 2019

GARDP and Penta join forces to deal with drug-resistant infections in children

The Global Antibiotic Research & Development Partnership and Penta, the pediatric infectious diseases research network, have joined forces to tackle drug-resistant infections in children.

5 Mar 2019

Peptide derived from fungi prevents growth of tuberculosis bacteria

The discovery of the peptide as a possible future antibiotic was made when the researchers screened different antimicrobial peptides' ability to prevent the growth of the tuberculosis bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

4 Mar 2019

Scientists create novel tool to advance search for antibacterial drugs

Indiana University researchers are advancing knowledge about how bacteria build their cell walls that could contribute to the search for new antibacterial drugs. They have created a new tool to observe living cells in real time under a microscope.

4 Mar 2019

CHOP researchers use machine-learning models for early detection of sepsis in NICU infants

Automated programs can identify which sick infants in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) have sepsis hours before clinicians recognize the life-threatening condition.

1 Mar 2019

Researchers explore why common antibiotic prescribed for diarrhea is failing

In the world of superbugs (bacteria that has grown resistant to antibiotics) Clostridioides difficile, a bacterium that causes diarrhea and colitis, is among the most stubborn.

27 Feb 2019

European researchers develop biophotonic system to detect antibiotic allergies

The detection of allergies to antibiotics is currently conducted with a series of in vivo skin tests; they are invasive, and as such, entail inconveniences.

27 Feb 2019

Antimicrobials used to treat zoonotic diseases are becoming less effective, data reveals

Data released today by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and European Food Safety Authority reveal that antimicrobials used to treat diseases that can be transmitted between animals and humans, such as campylobacteriosis and salmonellosis, are becoming less effective.

27 Feb 2019

Surgery is very safe for uncomplicated appendicitis, study shows

Researchers found that more than 97 percent of the surgeries for appendicitis were laparoscopic, or minimally invasive, and most patients were discharged the same day or the next day. Only 3 percent of the procedures resulted in complications.

26 Feb 2019

Study finds drug interactions in ER's are common but could be prevented

In a recent Rutgers study, 38 percent of patients discharged from the emergency department had at least one drug interaction resulting from a newly prescribed medicine.

26 Feb 2019

Study: Awareness campaigns are not sufficient to tackle superbug crisis in developing countries

In a landmark study of health behaviors in developing countries, Global Sustainable Development research at the University of Warwick has found that awareness campaigns alone are not enough to reduce unnecessary antibiotic use and, in fact, could risk making the superbug crisis worse.

26 Feb 2019

Paying more attention to antibiotic dosing could improve clinical outcomes for CF patients

Children and young adults with cystic fibrosis (CF) whose lung infections were treated with suboptimal doses of antibiotics had fewer changes in lung microbial diversity during the IV treatment, and their microbial diversity levels were higher 30 days later, a multi-institutional study that includes Children's researchers shows.

23 Feb 2019

A simple change can drastically reduce unnecessary tests for urinary tract infections

Tests to detect urinary tract infections (UTI) often are performed routinely in hospitals, even when patients don't have symptoms.

22 Feb 2019

ICHE’s reviews on surgical infections, unnecessary urine tests, and nurses' role in antibiotic stewardship

Changes to standard urine orders in a computer physician order entry (CPOE) system, resulted in a 45% reduction in unnecessary urine cultures ordered, a change that is expected prevent unnecessary treatment of asymptomatic patients whose bacteria counts are above normal.

22 Feb 2019

New sepsis test could save thousands of lives

Researchers have used a biosensor that can quickly identify biomarkers of sepsis and has the potential to save thousands of lives.

21 Feb 2019

Combination of common antibiotics can eliminate multi-drug resistant E. coli

A group of scientists in Denmark is trying to get one step ahead in the battle against antibiotic resistance.

20 Feb 2019

Study sheds new light on how antibiotic resistance genes are transferred between bacteria

By studying fish raised in aquaculture, researchers from the Helmholtz Zentrum München, the University of Copenhagen and the University of Campinas in Brazil have shed new light on the mechanisms by which antibiotic resistance genes are transferred between bacteria.

19 Feb 2019

Researchers identify suicide toxin in the bacteria responsible for tuberculosis

The bacteria responsible for tuberculosis can be killed by a toxin they produce unless it is neutralized by an antidote protein. The European team of scientists behind this discovery is coordinated by researchers from the Institute of Pharmacology and Structural Biology and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.

18 Feb 2019

New protocol can help identify febrile infants at low risk for serious bacterial infections

A national research team led by UC Davis Health clinicians and researchers from the University of Michigan, Nationwide Children's Hospital and Columbia University, has derived and validated a new protocol for emergency departments that can determine which infant patients with fevers, age 60 days or younger, are at low risk of significant bacterial infections.

18 Feb 2019

New protocol could help physicians to rule out bacterial infections in infants

A new protocol could help emergency room physicians to rule out life-threatening bacterial infections among infants up to 2 months of age who have fevers, potentially eliminating the need for spinal taps, unnecessary antibiotic treatments or expensive hospital stays.

18 Feb 2019

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Microbes causing cystic fibrosis change rapidly within 2-3 years after first infection

GARDP and Penta join forces to deal with drug-resistant infections in children

Peptide derived from fungi prevents growth of tuberculosis bacteria

Scientists create novel tool to advance search for antibacterial drugs

CHOP researchers use machine-learning models for early detection of sepsis in NICU infants

Researchers explore why common antibiotic prescribed for diarrhea is failing

European researchers develop biophotonic system to detect antibiotic allergies

Antimicrobials used to treat zoonotic diseases are becoming less effective, data reveals

Surgery is very safe for uncomplicated appendicitis, study shows

Study finds drug interactions in ER's are common but could be prevented

Study: Awareness campaigns are not sufficient to tackle superbug crisis in developing countries

Paying more attention to antibiotic dosing could improve clinical outcomes for CF patients

A simple change can drastically reduce unnecessary tests for urinary tract infections

ICHE’s reviews on surgical infections, unnecessary urine tests, and nurses' role in antibiotic stewardship

New sepsis test could save thousands of lives

Combination of common antibiotics can eliminate multi-drug resistant E. coli

Study sheds new light on how antibiotic resistance genes are transferred between bacteria

Researchers identify suicide toxin in the bacteria responsible for tuberculosis

New protocol can help identify febrile infants at low risk for serious bacterial infections

New protocol could help physicians to rule out bacterial infections in infants

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