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

Antibiotic resistance is one of the world's leading causes of death, claiming the lives of more people than HIV / AIDS or ...

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

The World Health Organization estimates that about 9 million people become ill from the life-threatening infection and ...

The NHS has issued a stark warning and says typhoid fever is a particularly unpleasant bacterial infection that can spread ...

The condition is a particularly unpleasant bacterial infection that can spread throughout the body and, according to the NHS, ...

Typhoid fever is a particularly unpleasant bacterial infection that can spread throughout the body and, according to the NHS, ...

The metagenomic sequences are then compared to known sequences to identify resistance genes and/or mutations. Antibiotic Resistance in Human-associated Microbes It is estimated that there are ten ...

These infections—systemic, lethal infestations of the body’s deep tissues and organs—have little in common with the ...