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Human society faces the risk of a future without antibiotics and antimicrobials. The implications of this are that life expectancy could fall due to...
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The growth in antibiotic and antimicrobial resistant bacteria is one of the major problems facing health systems worldwide. This describes bacteria that could once...
Life
The growing problem of antimicrobial resistance has been well publicized. A range of pathogenic bacteria have become resistant to one or more antimicrobials (multi-drug...
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Antibiotics and antimicrobials remain an important health topic. The world is running out of suitable compounds. This is a combination of the misuse of...
World
A gene that makes bacteria resistant to last-resort antibiotics has been found in Denmark, a new study has shown, after first being identified by...
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The Thanksgiving holiday season wouldn’t be complete without turkey, and millions will be sold this year. While turkey is sometimes seen as one of...
Tech & Science
Antibiotics and antimicrobials have been in the news recently, particularly the misuse of antibiotics (such as adding the drugs to farm animal feed), to...
World
Medicine’s final line of defence against deadly disease has been breached, raising the spectre of a global epidemic, scientists say, after finding bacteria resistant...
Tech & Science
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) refers to a strain of the bacterium S. aureus that has acquired resistance to a major class of antibiotic methicillin....
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The university has been awarded a special grant based on its previous history of research into antimicrobials. The grant, titled “Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance: An...