Next-generation technology has helped solve a 30-year mystery of how Legionnaires' disease—a severe form of pneumonia—works, ...

[ABUJA, SciDevNet] In the dry, isolated area of Karamoja in northeastern Uganda – the country’s poorest sub-region – children have long suffered from malnutrition and water shortages.

Drug-resistant, NDM-producing bacteria are increasingly being found in and can easily spread among the billions of chickens, ...

Despite significant medical advances over the past 25 years, infectious diseases remain a major global health challenge, ...

Short peptides can self-assemble into net-like structures that kill bacteria. Now, researchers have discovered how to control ...

The genetic culprits responsible for the spread of multidrug resistance (MDR) in bacteria have been identified by new ...

The rate of carbapenem-resistant infections rose from just under 2 per 100,000 people in 2019 to more than 3 per 100,000 in ...

Researchers have found antibiotic-resistant bacterial clones in wild birds at a rehabilitation center. The identified Escherichia coli clones have been found in community- and hospital-acquired human ...

Superbugs have become one of the biggest threats to modern medicine. In hospitals around the world, these drug-resistant pathogens cause infections that are difficult, sometimes impossible, to treat.

The genetic culprits responsible for the spread of multidrug resistance (MDR) in bacteria have been identified by new ...