Medical research

Biologists develop method for antibiotic susceptibility testing

A team of biologists and biomedical researchers at UC San Diego has developed a new method to determine if bacteria are susceptible to antibiotics within a few hours, an advance that could slow the appearance of drug resistance ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Memo to docs: Mind the nonresistant bugs too

Drug-resistant bacteria have dominated news headlines and the attention of public health experts, but a study by experts at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center and the Duke Clinical Research Institute shows that nonresistant ...

Immunology

Antibiotic overuse might be why so many people have allergies

Scientists have warned for decades that the overuse of antibiotics leads to the development of drug-resistant bacteria, making it harder to fight infectious disease. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

How DNA detectives are helping solve the rise of superbugs

It is now 12 years since the first set of genetic instructions in a human was sequenced. Many of our hopes for using knowledge about the human genome to better fight the likes of heart disease and cancer still lie years and ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

CDC: Drug-resistant foodborne bacteria on rise

(HealthDay)—Antibiotic-resistant infections from foodborne germs still cause about 440,000 illnesses in the United States each year, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Tuesday.

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