If taken within 72 hours of condomless sex, the common antibiotic doxycycline drastically reduces the risk of gonorrhea, syphilis and chlamydia among transwomen and gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men, a recent ...
Jul 14, 2023
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In February 2023, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned people against using EzriCare eye drops because bottles of the product had been linked to drug-resistant bacterial infections causing vision ...
May 11, 2023
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Multidrug-resistant E. coli were found in 40% of supermarket meat samples tested in a Spanish study. E. coli strains capable of causing severe infections in people were also highly prevalent, this year's European Congress ...
Apr 14, 2023
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Monday that cases of Candida auris, or C. auris—a potentially deadly and drug-resistant fungal infection—are on the rise at U.S. health-care facilities.
Mar 21, 2023
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Widespread use of antibiotics in humans and animals has created growing resistance to treatments. What will happen if nothing is done? We asked expert Piotr Garstecki.
Mar 13, 2023
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A report released today outlines the challenges Australia and the world need to overcome to avoid being thrust back into a pre-antimicrobial age where simple infections are deadly and some surgeries are too risky to perform.
Feb 28, 2023
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HBO's hit series "The Last of Us" envisions a world decimated by a fungal apocalypse.
Feb 16, 2023
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Since the discovery of penicillin in the late 1920s, antibiotics have "revolutionized medicine and saved millions of lives." Unfortunately, the effectiveness of antibiotics is now threatened by the increase of antibiotic-resistant ...
Feb 10, 2023
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Neil Osheroff, John Coniglio Chair in Biochemistry and professor of biochemistry and medicine, is part of an international research collaboration resulting in what is on track to be the first new antibiotic treatment for ...
Jan 30, 2023
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A cutting-edge test developed by West Australian scientists could be a game changer for the fight against superbugs.
Jan 9, 2023
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