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

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

A new strategy to combat antibiotic resistance. A consortium of researchers with multidisciplinary skills, coordinated by ...

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

University of Oregon researchers have uncovered a molecule produced by yeast living on human skin that showed potent ...

Among these, 513 populations showed genetic changes or mutations in gyrA -- a gene associated with fluoroquinolone resistance ...

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

Antibiotic resistance is believed to be one of the biggest threats to global public health. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) says there were an estimated 66,730 serious antibiotic-resistant ...

Today, only one oral antibiotic is left: the macrolide, azithromycin. And this medicine might not work for much longer. The 2022 study found mutations that confer resistance to azithromycin are ...