Study reveals how antibiotics contribute to risk of inflammatory bowel disease
Artist's interpretation of the study. The tube represents the intestine, with antibiotics blocking the flow of mucus. Credit: DrawImpacts/Bar-Ilan University ...
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Giving antibiotics to all children under 5 in Africa would save lives, researchers say
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain When research at the University of California, San Francisco, showed that routinely treating children in sub-Saharan ...
Will antibiotics soon be ineffective?
Antibiotic-resistant infections are increasing in number and threaten to become the leading cause of global mortality by 2050. A worrying ...
How sex hormones help gonorrhea fight antimicrobials and antibiotics
Proposed mechanism for transcriptional regulation of mtrCDE multidrug efflux pump genes by MtrR. An MtrR bound to the mtrCDE operator ...
New research shows that the arrangement of bacteria in biofilms affects their sensitivity to antibiotics
A laboratory-grown Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm. The 3D images were acquired by an advanced light-sheet theta microscopy system (ClearScope) developed at ...
New E. coli strain that is highly infectious and resistant to powerful antibiotics
Characteristics of CREC isolates (n = 388) from Chinese hospitals. Credit: Natural communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-43854-3 A new type of ...
Researchers discover new species of bacteria resistant to antibiotics
Quantitative KEGG analysis of genes identified in the UCI isolate. The bar graph illustrates the distribution of genes in the ...
Treating tuberculosis when antibiotics no longer work
Credit: Cellular chemical biology (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.chambiol.2023.12.007 Researchers have identified new antibiotic molecules that target Mycobacterium tuberculosis and make it ...
