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Infections of drug-resistant superbugs are projected to kill nearly 40 million people over the next 25 years.
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In a media briefing on June 1, the director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, voiced the agency’s concerns over the...
Life
New precision medicine solutions are capable of rapidly identifying and managing superbugs in healthcare facilities. These have the goal of cutting down on costly...
World
Millions of people in Europe, North America and Australia will die from superbug infections unless countries prioritise fighting the growing threat posed by bacteria...
Life
The University of Queensland Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) researchers have synthesized the antibiotic to increase its effectiveness against extensively drug-resistant bacteria, then collaborated...
Tech & Science
The antibiotic that has been re-designed is vancomycin and the alteration makes the new version far more potent than the exiting drug. Vancomycin is...
Life
Although incidences of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Clostridium difficle have fallen, mainly due to preventative measures undertaken in hospitals, cases of Escherichia coli...
Life
Hospital-acquired infection (or nosocomial infection) refers to an infection that is contracted from the environment or staff of a health care facility. The main...
Tech & Science
Australian researchers have been examining the use of short chains of proteins (or peptide polymers) for the elimination of pathogenic bacteria. The peptides have...
Life
Based on information from a 2013 study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), each year in the U.S. at least...