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Researchers develop skin tests, decision support tool to increase antibiotic use in hospitalized patients

Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital investigators have developed two approaches to increasing the use of penicillins and cephalosporins - highly effective antibiotics that are not as problematic as many alternatives - in hospitalized patients previously believed to be allergic to penicillin.

7 Mar 2017

Innovative ways to target antibiotic resistance in short term

There has been much recent talk about how to target the rising tide of antibiotic resistance across the world, one of the biggest threats to global health today.

3 Mar 2017

WHO releases first ever list of antibiotic-resistant 'priority pathogens'

The World Health Organization today published its first ever list of antibiotic-resistant “priority pathogens”—a catalogue of 12 families of bacteria that pose the greatest threat to human health.

3 Mar 2017

Case Western Reserve and VA team up to tackle rising problem of antibiotic resistance

Since the discovery of penicillin in 1928, antibiotics have made the world a much safer and healthier place. But Shakespeare was onto something when he asked if it's possible to have too much of a good thing. In the case of antibiotics, the answer is increasingly "yes."

3 Mar 2017

Compound from soil bacteria could translate into new drug lead for TB

A new treatment for tuberculosis (TB) is set to be developed using compounds derived from bacteria that live in soil - according an international collaboration of researchers, including the University of Warwick.

1 Mar 2017

Using Spherical Nucleic Acids to Track and Treat Disease

Spherical nucleic acids are structures that are made by taking a nanoparticle template and using chemistry to arrange short strands of DNA or RNA on the surface of those particles. The spherical core of the nanoparticle creates a spherical arrangement of DNA or RNA, similar to tiny little balls of nucleic acids.

From Pittcon 1 Mar 2017

WSU study aims to reduce burden of antimicrobial resistance

The death last year of a woman in Reno, Nev., from an infection resistant to every type of antibiotic available in the U.S. highlights how serious the threat of antimicrobial resistance has become.

1 Mar 2017

New study finds huge problem of multi-drug resistant infections among children

In a new, first-of-its-kind study, researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have found a 700-percent surge in infections caused by bacteria from the Enterobacteriaceae family resistant to multiple kinds of antibiotics among children in the US. These antibiotic resistant infections are in turn linked to longer hospital stays and potentially greater risk of death.

24 Feb 2017

Researchers chart pathway of multidrug resistant bacteria living in hospital sink drainpipes

Many recent reports have found multidrug resistant bacteria living in hospital sink drainpipes, putting them in close proximity to vulnerable patients.

24 Feb 2017

Wastewater releases from oil and gas operations at West Virginia alter microbes, study finds

Wastewater from oil and gas operations -- including fracking for shale gas -- at a West Virginia site altered microbes downstream, according to a Rutgers-led study.

23 Feb 2017

UC San Diego researchers suggest transplanting good bacteria to treat patients with atopic dermatitis

Healthy human skin is alive with bacteria. In fact, there are more microorganisms living in and on the human body than there are human cells. Most can live on the human skin without harming the host, but in some people bacteria can negatively alter their health, maybe even become life-threatening.

23 Feb 2017

Scientists identify novel mutations in bacteria that promote evolution of antibiotic resistance

Scientists from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have identified novel mutations in bacteria that promote the evolution of high-level antibiotic resistance.

21 Feb 2017

New article provides thought-provoking view on the rise of allergy, autoimmune diseases

This new feature article by Megan Scudellari is a well-researched, thought provoking view on the rise of allergy and autoimmune diseases and shows how, if looked at objectively, it’s obviously due to “much more than rampant cleanliness”.

17 Feb 2017

New class of antibiotics effective in treating children with MRSA skin infections

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a bacterial scourge. As its name suggests, MRSA is resistant to most common antibiotics and thus difficult to treat, particularly in children where it commonly causes complicated skin and skin structure infections.

17 Feb 2017

Study: Physicians more likely to prescribe antibiotics when patients' expectations are high

Experimental evidence confirms what surveys have long suggested: Physicians are more likely to prescribe antibiotics when they believe there is a high expectation of it from their patients, even if they think the probability of bacterial infection is low and antibiotics would not be effective, according to a study published by the American Psychological Association.

16 Feb 2017

Researchers develop new method that can rapidly profile resistome of gut microbial communities

Taking antibiotics to fight an infection won't necessarily solve your problems. Often, natural occurring bacteria in the gut harbor several resistance genes.

10 Feb 2017

UC San Diego engineers develop desktop diagnosis tool that detects harmful bacteria in few hours

Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a desktop diagnosis tool that detects the presence of harmful bacteria in a blood sample in a matter of hours instead of days.

8 Feb 2017

UCLA researchers identify drug combinations that may be successful in reducing growth of bacteria

A landmark report by the World Health Organization in 2014 observed that antibiotic resistance -- long thought to be a health threat of the future -- had finally become a serious threat to public health around the world.

8 Feb 2017

Scientists evaluate rapid test that detects colistin resistance gene in bacterial isolates

Colistin is used as the "last-resort antibiotic" for dreaded multidrug-resistant pathogens, especially in hospitals. However, gut bacteria that have become insensitive to colistin now exist -- owing to the mobile resistance gene mcr-1. In early 2016, bacteria carrying this resistance gene were detected in Germany for the first time.

6 Feb 2017

Scientists identify key 'survival gene' that reduces mutation rates in mycobacteria

Scientists have discovered a key 'survival gene' that prevents strains of tuberculosis (TB) from mutating into drug-resistant 'superbugs'.

28 Jan 2017

Antibiotic Resistance News and Research

Researchers develop skin tests, decision support tool to increase antibiotic use in hospitalized patients

Innovative ways to target antibiotic resistance in short term

WHO releases first ever list of antibiotic-resistant 'priority pathogens'

Case Western Reserve and VA team up to tackle rising problem of antibiotic resistance

Compound from soil bacteria could translate into new drug lead for TB

Using Spherical Nucleic Acids to Track and Treat Disease

WSU study aims to reduce burden of antimicrobial resistance

New study finds huge problem of multi-drug resistant infections among children

Researchers chart pathway of multidrug resistant bacteria living in hospital sink drainpipes

Wastewater releases from oil and gas operations at West Virginia alter microbes, study finds

UC San Diego researchers suggest transplanting good bacteria to treat patients with atopic dermatitis

Scientists identify novel mutations in bacteria that promote evolution of antibiotic resistance

New article provides thought-provoking view on the rise of allergy, autoimmune diseases

New class of antibiotics effective in treating children with MRSA skin infections

Study: Physicians more likely to prescribe antibiotics when patients' expectations are high

Researchers develop new method that can rapidly profile resistome of gut microbial communities

UC San Diego engineers develop desktop diagnosis tool that detects harmful bacteria in few hours

UCLA researchers identify drug combinations that may be successful in reducing growth of bacteria

Scientists evaluate rapid test that detects colistin resistance gene in bacterial isolates

Scientists identify key 'survival gene' that reduces mutation rates in mycobacteria

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