Some strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the bacteria that causes the sexually transmitted infection (STI) gonorrhea, have ...

UW-La Crosse students discover new fungi with potential to fight antibiotic resistance. Hands-on learning in Medical Mycology ...

Bacterial infection that thrives in wet soil and stagnant water has hit particularly hard in regions affected by flooding ...

A new study reveals that even short-term use of ciprofloxacin can cause persistent antimicrobial resistance in human gut ...

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

ANTIBIOTICS are one of the miracles of modern medicine. The drugs have transformed the treatment of deadly bacterial ...

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

A new study on Lyme disease sheds light on the persistence of symptoms; another new study points to an antibiotic that may be ...

Lyme disease, a disease transmitted when deer ticks feed on infected animals like deer and rodents, and then bite humans, impacts nearly half a million individuals in the U.S. annually.

Antibiotic-resistant illnesses, the World Health Organization says they are a global health concern, but the discovery of a new molecule could change things.

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

Piperacillin, an antibiotic in the same class as penicillin, effectively cured mice of Lyme disease at 100-times less than the effective dose of doxycycline, the current gold standard treatment. At ...