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.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Scientists develop new antibiotic for gonorrhoea

Scientists at the University of York have harnessed the therapeutic effects of carbon monoxide-releasing molecules to develop a new antibiotic which could be used to treat the sexually transmitted infection gonorrhoea.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Colistin-resistant gene detected in the US for the second time

For the second time, a clinical isolate of a bacterial pathogen has been detected in humans in the United States which carries the colistin resistance gene, mcr-1. This may also be the first case to show up in the US. That ...

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