Spotless surfaces in hospitals can hide bacteria that rarely cause problems for healthy people but pose a serious threat to
Category: Antibiotic resistance
Technology for accelerated wound healing
Researchers at Uppsala University and SLU have found a new way of accelerating wound healing. The technology involves using lactic
Antibiotics with narrower targets for respiratory infections
Researchers who studied pediatric treatment practices in patients with earaches, strep throat and other common infections found that narrow-spectrum antibiotics,
Alternative therapies for antibiotic resistance
Drug development strategies have focused on replacing antibiotics in extreme infections, such as sepsis, where every minute without an effective
Bacteria obtain resistance from competitor
Bacteria not only develop resistance to antibiotics, they also can pick it up from their rivals. In a recent publication
Managing antibiotics can not reverse the resistance
Researchers have discovered that reducing the use of antibiotics will not be enough to reverse the growing prevalence of antibiotic
Throats can serve as reservoirs for gonorrhoea
Drug-resistant gonorrhoea can spread from an infected person’s throat during oral sex. Oral gonorrhoea has increased due to oral sex
Meningococcal B vaccine may prevents gonorrhoea
Vaccine used against a bacteria that causes brain inflammation can prevents gonorrhoea. Presently, using a condom or abstaining from sex
