A new Rutgers Health study reveals a surprising twist in the antibiotic resistance story: instead of simply killing bacteria, ...

Antibiotic resistance happens when germs develop the ... This may have a wide range of effects on health. For example, a 2019 study of over 37,000 older women found that using antibiotics at ...

Antibiotic resistance is the ability of a microorganism to withstand the effects of an antibiotic. It is a specific type of drug resistance. Antibiotic resistance evolves naturally via natural ...

In a concerning discovery, US researchers have found that seafood imported into the country could be playing a role in the global spread of resistance to colistin — a last-resort antibiotic used to ...

Acquired resistance occurs when antibiotic-susceptible bacteria gain the ability to withstand the effects of an antibiotic, allowing them to reproduce and spread under selective pressure.

A thousand-year-old treatment recorded in an early medieval medical text has shown powerful antibacterial effects against ...

A new study from Rutgers Health shows that ciprofloxacin, a staple treatment for urinary tract infections, throws Escherichia ...

Fungicides used in agriculture have been linked to an increase in resistance to antifungal drugs in both humans and animals.

The latest Global Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Surveillance System report highlights disparities in access to and use of ...

When the antibiotic bedaquiline was introduced in 2012, it was the first new tuberculosis drug in over 40 years. Bedaquiline ...