WHO said it is important to combat antimicrobial resistance as misuse and overuse are making antibiotics less effective, putting modern medicine at risk.

If you've ever had a urinary tract infection (UTI), you know how miserable it can be: the burning, the itching, the constant ...

RSV is a significant cause of viral lower respiratory tract infections (VLRTIs) in children, including 50% to 80% of children ...

Overprescribing antibiotics breeds antibiotic resistance. A new tool aims to lower a notably high rate of such prescriptions in Rwanda.

Alembic Pharmaceuticals launches Pivya, its first branded antibiotic in the US, targeting uncomplicated urinary tract ...

Mycoplasma phocimorsus is a zoonotic pathogen, often transmitted from seals, that is resistant to common antibiotics and can ...

Affecting roughly half a million Americans each year, bacterial infections caused by Clostridioides difficile—commonly known ...

As in the study reported by Shahi, successful pathogen identification greatly increased the chances of successful treatment. Defining failure as reoperation for infection or use of chronic antibiotic ...

The 29-year-old hunter got the disease after skinning a brown bear off the Alaskan Peninsula, but it took doctors weeks to diagnose it ...

The discovery of Psychrobacter SC65A.3, isolated from the Scărişoara Ice Cave in Romania, is both a blessing and a curse.

Researchers discovered that clearing out certain digestive bacteria with antibiotics helps calm the immune system. This temporary microbial shift protected mice from severe brain swelling and cellular ...

A recent review finds that microalgal niches in freshwater ecosystems may concentrate antibiotic resistance genes, raising environmental and public health concerns.