Tag: Antibiotic Resistance

Protective Armour of Superbug C.difficile Revealed

February 25, 2022
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Newcastle upon Tyne, UK — The spectacular structure of the protective armour of superbug C.difficile has been revealed for the first time showing the close-knit yet flexible outer layer – like chain...

Scientist Seeking Solution to Antibiotic Resistance

January 21, 2022
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Lubbock, TX — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that more than 2.8 million Americans experience antibiotic-resistant infections each year; more than 35,000 die from those infections. To...

Superbug MRSA Arose in Hedgehogs Long Before Clinical Use of Antibiotics, Research Suggests

January 5, 2022
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Cambridge, UK — Scientists have found evidence that a type of the antibiotic resistant superbug MRSA arose in nature long before the use of antibiotics in humans and livestock, which has traditionally...

Novel Compound Might Defeat Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria Common in Hospitals

January 5, 2022
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New York, NY — For years, public-health experts have been sounding the alarm about the next phase in humanity’s co-existence with bacteria—a dark future where emerging strains have rendered once-powerful antibiotics useless....

With Antibiotic Resistance, ‘We Are Running Out of Options’

November 24, 2021
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Arlington, TX — Experts predict that without intervention, the problem of multidrug-resistant bacterial infections could be catastrophic by 2050, killing nearly 10 million people each year. To seek...

Going for Gold to Reduce Antibiotic Resistance

November 10, 2021
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Leeds, UK — Tiny particles of gold could be the new weapon in the fight against bacterial antibiotic resistance, according to research published Nov. 8 in the journal Chemical Science. Scientists...

Test Determines Antibiotic Resistance in Less Than 90 Minutes

November 3, 2021
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Pullman, WA — A technique that measures the metabolic activity of bacteria with an electric probe can identify antibiotic resistance in less than 90 minutes, a dramatic improvement from the one to...

Study Shows Lower Antibiotic Resistance in Intestinal Bacteria With Temocillin

October 29, 2021
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Linköping, Sweden — A forgotten antibiotic, temocillin, led to lower selection of resistant bacteria than the standard treatment for febrile urinary tract infection, in a study published in The Lancet...

Hope of Treating Infections Caused by Drug Resistant Pathogens

July 27, 2021
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Hong Kong, China — A research team led by Dr. Aixin YAN, Associate Professor from the Research Division for Molecular & Cell Biology, Faculty of Science, in collaboration with Honorary Clinical...

Researchers Find Target to Fight Antibiotic Resistance

May 12, 2021
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Athens, GA — Gram-negative bacteria are the bane of health care workers’ existence. They’re one of the most dangerous organisms to become infected with–and one of the hardest to...

How Bacterial Traffic Jams Lead to Antibiotic-Resistant, Multilayer Biofilms

March 17, 2021
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Coventry, UK — The bacterial equivalent of a traffic jam causes multilayered biofilms to form in the presence of antibiotics, shows a study published today in eLife. The study reveals how the collective...

Research Pinpoints Unique Drug Target in Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria

March 9, 2021
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Norwich, UK — Researchers have identified a critical mechanism that allows deadly bacteria to gain resistance to antibiotics. The findings offer a potential new drug target in the search for effective...

Unlocking ‘The Shape of Water’ in Mechanisms of Antibiotic Resistance

January 20, 2021
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Chicago, IL — New high-resolution structures of the bacterial ribosome determined by researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago show that a single water molecule may be the cause — and...

World First Study Shows Some Microorganisms can Bend the Rules of Evolution

October 15, 2020
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Melbourne, Australia — In a world first Monash University scientists have discovered that HGT can bend the rules of evolution. The discovery is outlined in a study published today in PNAS, which...

Researchers Find New Way to Make Bacteria more Sensitive to Antibiotics

August 13, 2020
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Singapore — Researchers from Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, have discovered a new way to reverse antibiotic resistance in...

Entry Point for Curbing the Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance Discovered

June 25, 2020
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Cologne, Germany — The team of Professor Tobias Bollenbach from the Institute for Biological Physics at the University of Cologne has published a study on a new approach to improving the effectiveness...

Antibiotic Exposure can ‘Prime’ Single-Resistant Bacteria to Become Multidrug-Resistant

April 28, 2020
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Seattle, WA — Antibiotics save lives — but using them also helps antibiotic-resistant strains evolve and spread. Each year, antibiotic-resistant bacteria infect some 2.8 million people in the...

One Quarter of Bacterial Pathogens Can Spread Antibiotic Resistance Directly to Peers, Study Finds

January 29, 2020
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Durham, NC — Biomedical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated that at least 25 percent of antibiotic-resistant pathogenic bacteria found in clinical settings are capable of spreading their...

Researchers Discover New Strategy in the Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance

January 15, 2020
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Leuven, Belgium — Bioscience engineers from KU Leuven in Belgium have developed a new antibacterial strategy that weakens bacteria by preventing them from cooperating. Unlike with antibiotics, there...

Bacteria-Shredding Tech to Fight Drug-Resistant Superbugs

January 14, 2020
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Melbourne, Australia — Researchers have used liquid metals to develop new bacteria-destroying technology that could be the answer to the deadly problem of antibiotic resistance. The technology uses...

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