The Organization for Safety, Asepsis and Prevention (OSAP) held its annual Infection Control Boot Camp in Atlanta at the beginning of February. For the second year, OSAP dedicated the day preceding ...

Antibiotic resistance allows bacteria to grow despite antibiotic exposure, whereas antibiotic tolerance allows them to survive lethal treatment longer without increasing MIC. Understanding this ...

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has classified antibiotic resistance as one of the world’s most pressing health problems. Even when antibiotics drugs are used properly, bacteria and microbes are ...

A growing number of Americans are building immunity to antibiotics, which can make them more vulnerable to illnesses and infections. There are about 2.8 million antibiotic-resistant infections per ...

Prior to the discovery of antibiotics, infectious diseases were rampant. Communicable diseases were the most common cause of death, and the average lifespan was about 47 years old. However, this ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: What is the difference between antibiotics and antivirals? -- A.T.G. ANSWER: Antibiotics are an effective treatment for bacteria. Some antibiotics are very broad, meaning that they can ...

In a breakthrough step, India recently launched its first indigenously developed antibiotic, Nafithrimycin, also known as ...

A new experimental antibiotic has stunned researchers by wiping out dangerous bacteria at concentrations roughly two orders of magnitude lower than some of the drugs doctors rely on today. Early lab ...

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania developed ApexGO, an AI-powered system that optimizes antimicrobial peptides.

These days, we don’t think much about being able to access a course of antibiotics to head off an infection. But that wasn’t always the case – antibiotics have been available for less than a century.