Scientists at the Keio University School of Medicine in Tokyo and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard say they have isolated eighteen bacterial strains from stool from healthy people that could ...

Some antibiotics stop bacteria from growing without actually killing them, allowing infections to return later. Scientists at ...

Drugs that act against bacteria are mainly assessed based on how well they inhibit bacterial growth under laboratory ...

The discovery of an "Achilles' heel" in strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria may provide a better way to deal with this public health crisis. That is the conclusion of an international team of ...

Antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections often occur in patients with chronic inflammatory intestinal conditions, such as inflammatory bowel disease, and in patients who have taken antibiotics for a ...

Antibiotic resistance is a growing public health problem around the world. When bacteria like E. coli no longer respond to antibiotics, infections become harder to treat. To develop new antibiotics, ...

Antibiotics have long been the go-to treatment for various infections. Still, almost as soon as the treatment was discovered in 1945, widespread use led to the rise of a new problem: antibiotic ...

Antibiotic resistance is a serious threat to public health. When antibiotics don't work, we risk not being able to treat many types of infections and people who would previously have been cured, can ...

Bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics are a growing health problem. These dangerous pathogens are already thought to contribute to the deaths of over 4 million people every year, worldwide. The ...

Three men sought help at clinics or emergency rooms in Los Angeles County over a three-month period this year, each reporting severe diarrhea and a recent history of sexual contact with other men.

Researchers have isolated 18 bacterial strains from stool from healthy people that could potentially be a more effective treatment for antibiotic-resistant gut infections. The team found that these ...