Global surveillance data from over 23 million infections reveal persistently high and uneven antibiotic resistance, with the ...

Antimicrobial resistance is responsible for some 1.2 million deaths a year and contributes to millions more. Data in the new report shows that the problem is growing at an alarming rate.

Dangerous infections that no longer respond to antibiotics are spreading quickly around the world, increasing by as much as ...

A new World Health Organization study finds 1 in 6 infections worldwide are resistant to some antibiotics, highlighting a growing threat from drug-resistant bacteria.

A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the deadly drug-resistant bacteria NDM-CRE found a 70% ...

Tackling antibiotic resistance likely requires a multifaceted approach. Better and faster point-of-care testing, new treatments, and antimicrobial stewardship could hold promise for future control.

Researchers at McMaster University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have made two scientific breakthroughs ...

One in six laboratory-confirmed bacterial infections are resistant to antibiotic treatments, the World Health Organization ...

The EMA’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has recommended several changes to the way the antibiotic azithromycin is used in the EU, including the removal of certain indications.

Researchers at Sheba Medical Center’s innovation center and its Infectious Diseases Research Laboratory are sending a groundbreaking scientific experiment to the International Space Station (ISS) on ...

For bacteria, microplastics are the perfect meetup spot—tiny, intimate surfaces where microbes can cling, huddle close and swap genes. And these crowded bacterial breeding grounds may pose a threat to ...

For nurses wanting to wash a patient in their bed, this means putting a bowl under a faucet with a plastic sleeve wrapped ...