Stanford University researchers report that ciprofloxacin use drives persistent antibiotic resistance in human gut bacteria, ...

A genomic study of gut microbes during antibiotic use finds selective sweeps in a DNA gyrase gene that drive resistance.

Antibiotic resistance poses a growing global health crisis, and researchers are turning to evolutionary biology for solutions ...

A new bacteria-killing paint shows powerful promise in eliminating dangerous pathogens like MRSA and COVID-19 from hard ...

The paint-on resin was shown to kill off bacteria and fungi, and might even work against the flu and COVID-19 viruses.

Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928, and during his Nobel lecture on 11 December 1945, he had already warned about the potential dangers of antibiotic resistance, saying: “It is not ...

Daria Van Tyne did not expect to see changes in a population of bacteria taken from her hospital in Pennsylvania, in the United States. Her hunch was wrong, but the results of her recent study ...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR), often labelled as a silent pandemic, is one of the most pressing global health challenges of our time. As pathogens evolve to withstand the drugs currently ...

Detection of Antibiotic Resistance Antibiotic resistance is a highly selectable phenotype and can be detected using growth inhibition assays; however, culture-based approaches can take days to ...

Antimicrobial resistance and serotypes in Streptococcus pneumoniae have been evolving with the widespread use of antibiotics and the introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCV).