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Researchers tracking the bacteria causing typhoid fever, Salmonella Typhi, have observed increasing antibiotic resistance due to genetic adaptations. In discussion with The Guardian, Jehan Zeb ...
“This increases patients’ risk of future antibiotic resistance and other infections such as C difficile [Clostridium difficile] colitis. Broad-spectrum antibiotics also increase the risk for ...
Scientists from Northwestern University have identified that piperacillin, an antibiotic in the same class as penicillin, effectively cured mice of Lyme disease at 100-times less than the ...
For patients with IgE-mediated hypersensitivity to penicillin or cephalosporin, antimicrobial surgical prophylaxis often includes a fluoroquinolone or clindamycin in combination with a ...
the pharma-backed AMR Action Fund has made its first investments in companies trying to tackle the pressing problem of antibiotic resistance. The Fund – set up as a public-private partnership by ...