Some strains of heavily antibiotic-resistant bacteria in Ghana are not successful at spreading outside of the hospital, suggesting that control measures can be focused on clinical settings to help curb treatment-resistant ...
Oct 16, 2023
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Tuberculosis is often seen as a threat of the past. But it remains a significant concern worldwide, with international travel spreading the disease.
Oct 16, 2023
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A large multi-state study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, HCA Healthcare, and the University of California, Irvine has found that a nasal antibiotic ointment, ...
Oct 10, 2023
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A study by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers is the first to demonstrate the long-term efficacy of electrofulguration, a minimally invasive outpatient procedure that treats chronic urinary tract infections (UTIs) ...
Oct 10, 2023
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A new study analyzing wastewater samples from several aged care and retirement homes in Adelaide, has uncovered worrying signs of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in at least one facility. The study has been published in Microbiology ...
Oct 4, 2023
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is poised to recommend use of a powerful antibiotic to prevent sexually transmitted infections.
Oct 2, 2023
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Tuberculosis is old—ancient even. The infectious bacterial disease that plagued Old Testament Israelites and took down pharaohs was eventually stunted by vaccinations, antibiotics, and public health measures like isolation, ...
Sep 27, 2023
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Feces from endangered animals could be the source of a potential new treatment for the infectious bacteria that cause diabetic foot ulcers, researchers from the University of Sheffield have found.
Sep 22, 2023
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A new study suggests that Escherichia coli and other disease-causing microbes are passing easily between humans and animals in Cambodia, a country where clean water, sanitation and hygienic controls are lacking in many regions. ...
Sep 19, 2023
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Antimicrobial resistance—the ability of microorganisms to resist drugs that have been developed to control them—is a severe problem in African countries. The continent has the highest global burden of antimicrobial-resistant ...
Sep 18, 2023
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