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Microbiologists, exploring caves in New Mexico, have found almost one hundred bacteria which are resistant to most modern antibiotics. The finding reveals important information about acquired resistance.
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Gonorrhea used to be a fairly easy to treat sexually transmitted disease involving a single shot of penicillin. The disease evolved in time requiring other drugs to be used, but the drugs were plentiful. A new strain could change that.
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Most commonly linked to foreign travel - particularly to the Indian subcontinent - U.S. authorities are reporting an alarming increase in drug-resistant typhoid fever nationally.
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The genome of a newly-emerging superbug, commonly known as Steno, has just been sequenced. The results reveal an organism with a remarkable capacity for drug resistance.
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Could this be the disease that we've been warned would be the next pandemic? WHO announced on Tuesday that drug resistant TB is spreading faster than medical experts had thought it would.
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Over 90,000 people per year are developing life threatening infections caused by the drug resistant staph germ MRSA. The germ is common in hospitals, and is spreading to schools, prisons and locker rooms.10% of those infected develop flesh eating disease.
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Robert Daniels has been a virtual prisoner since 2006. His crime? He has drug-resistant tuberculosis. He returned from a trip aboard in Russia carrying the strain and was promptly put in confinement at Maricopa Medical Center.
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Is this a comedy of errors or a classic case of "good news, bad news?" "Andrew Speaker, a 31-year-old lawyer, has multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis, known as MDR TB -- and not a form of the disease known as extensively drug-resistant, or XDR."
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 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration called on drug companies to limit the use of antibiotics in farm animals to curb surge in drug-resistant bacteria.
Fearful of strong pesticides, some parents are turning to natural remedies for their lice-exposed school children.
Betrayal and escape in the French resistance
French resistance hero Raymond Aubrac has died aged 97
Tears, songs and waterwheels - emblems of Syrian resistance
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) received reports of fungal endophthalmitis (eye infections) in patients who...
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ABOUT J. THOMAS SHAW J. Thomas Shaw was born in Quincy, Illinois, and attended the University of Oklahoma and...
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The researchers from the University of Beira Interior in Portugal tested coriander oil against 12 bacterial strains,...
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Keeping hands clean and free from pathogens or high levels of microbial contamination is an important part of...
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In January, the Food and Drug Administration issued a warning about improperly labeling contaminated blood to a...
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