Medications
Treatments better than antibiotics needed now
New Zealanders should not be complacent because we have fewer antibiotic-resistant bacterial pathogens than elsewhere in the world, a University of Otago expert says.
Mar 3, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Antibiotic use for travellers' diarrhoea favors particularly resistant super bacteria
Every year, millions of travellers visit countries with poor hygiene, and approximately one third of them return home carrying antibiotic-resistant ESBL intestinal bacteria. Most of them remain unaware of this, as the bacteria ...
Feb 9, 2017
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Medical research
Vaccine watches bacteria, strikes only when trouble stirs
A new vaccine allows pneumonia-causing bacteria to colonize inside the body, springing into action only if the bacteria pose a threat.
Jun 7, 2016
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Antibiotic treatment speeds up spread of resistance in the gonorrhea superbug
Neisseria gonorrhoeae is a sexually transmitted bacterium that has developed broad resistance against antibiotics. A study published on May 19th in PLOS Pathogens suggests that screening and treatment of infected patients ...
May 19, 2016
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
New front opens in war on superbugs: experts
A newly-discovered antibiotic-resistant gene is threatening to open a new front in the war against superbugs by rendering a last-resort drug impotent, experts warn.
Apr 11, 2016
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Researchers report breakthrough in tuberculosis research
Scientists from the PATHONGEN-TRACE project in Germany and France together with colleagues from the Oxford Biomedical Research Centre and the South African National Institute for Communicable Diseases developed a new genetic ...
Jun 25, 2015
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Scientists map superbug genome paving way for new treatments and prevention
An international team of scientists, led by the University of Melbourne, has decoded the genes of Klebsiella pneumoniae (KP), a bacterium found in hospitals throughout the developing and developed world.
Jun 23, 2015
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Antibiotic-resistant listeria in unprocessed salad not as widespread as feared
Antibiotic-resistant strains of the food-poisoning microbe Listeria monocytogenes in unprocessed salad products is not quite as widespread as scientists originally suspected. A new study from Malaysia published in the International ...
Feb 27, 2015
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Medical research
New approach sees breakthrough in antibiotics research
Scientists using a revolutionary approach have devised an antibiotic that may offset the mounting problem of drug resistance for decades, they said on Wednesday.
Jan 7, 2015
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Predicting antibiotic resistance
Treating bacterial infections with antibiotics is becoming increasingly difficult as bacteria develop resistance not only to the antibiotics being used against them, but also to ones they have never encountered before. By ...
Dec 17, 2014
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