Recently, the teams led by Professor Xuechen Li from Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and Professor Sheng Chen from the Department of Infectious Diseases and Public Health of ...
Sep 14, 2021
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An experimental Alzheimer's disease treatment is proving effective at treating some of the most persistent, life-threatening antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Nov 18, 2020
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The last thing anyone wants during a stay in the hospital is a hospital-acquired infection. Nosocomial infections, as they are called, are on the rise as more pathogens become resistant to drugs currently available. One pathogen ...
Nov 21, 2019
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Many life-threatening bacteria are becoming increasingly resistant to existing antibiotics. Swiss researchers co-headed by the University of Zurich have now discovered a new class of antibiotics with a unique spectrum of ...
Oct 23, 2019
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The molecular machinery used by bacteria to resist chemicals designed to kill them could also help produce precursors for a new generation of nylon and other polymers, according to new research by scientists from Australia ...
Aug 12, 2019
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A group in the Department of Immunology, Microbiology and Parasitology at the UPV/EHU has conducted an in-depth study into the survival of the Acinetobacter baumannii bacterium, as well as the strategies it uses to survive. ...
Jul 16, 2019
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In the fight against super bacteria, University at Buffalo scientists are relying on strength in numbers to win the battle against drug resistance.
May 24, 2017
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In the end, it was viruses, not an antibiotic, that saved Tom Patterson's life after a superbug infection he suffered in Egypt left him hallucinating, comatose and near death for months.
May 2, 2017
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Pioneering use of whole genome sequencing in real time to help control a hospital outbreak is reported in an article published in the open access journal Genome Medicine. The research corroborates the use of the technique ...
Nov 19, 2014
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A rapid diagnostic test for multi-resistance to broad-spectrum antibiotics has just been developed at the University of Fribourg. Prof Patrice Nordmann and Dr Laurent Poirel of the Medical and Molecular Microbiology Unit ...
Jun 27, 2014
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