Nexsen Biotech has developed a simple-point-of care test to detect group B streptococcus in pregnant women The tool also has applications in bovine mastitis and, potentially, prostate cancer and ...

Background: Although intrapartum antimicrobial prophylaxis has lowered the incidence of early onset group B Streptococcus (GBS) sepsis, there are concerns that the increased use of antibiotics may ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Qfitlia is the first FDA-approved antithrombin-lowering therapy indicated for routine prophylaxis to prevent or reduce bleeding episodes in patients over 12 years of age with hemophilia A or B. The ...

Scientists have found the first new antibiotic treatment for gonorrhoea since the 1990s amid fears over the rise of “untreatable” strains of the sexually transmitted infection. Gepotidacin ...

Gonorrhea is a sexually transmitted disease caused by Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteria A new oral antibiotic, gepotidacin, may treat gonorrhea The drug showed similar success rates to current ...

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 ...

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 ...

Those strains may also be driving resistance to antibiotics used to treat certain cases of invasive group A strep, macrolides and clindamycin. While penicillin is the go-to antibiotic to treat ...