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Smallpox antiviral: FDA panel gives OK

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SIGA Technologies, Inc. (SIGA), a health security company specializing in the development and commercialization of solutions for serious unmet medical needs and biothreats, announced this week on a favorable...

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Antibiotic-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infections in children across the US: After 2008, a downward trend reported

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In the first national study of the prevalence of antibiotic-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infections in children across the US, researchers from Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics, & Policy...

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Anthrax antitoxin purchased for Strategic National Stockpile

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) will purchase an anthrax treatment for $25.2 million from Elusys Therapeutics...

ODLs (yellow) bind to a site on the ribosome not used by other antibiotics. Location of this site is shown here relative to the sites of other known antibiotics, such as negamycin (green), tetracycline (dark blue), aminoglycoside antibiotic paromomycin (red) and streptomycin (light blue). Image/UIC/Yury Polikanov, et al

Newly discovered antibiotic class, Odilorhabdins, and how they work

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Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago and Nosopharm, a biotechnology company based in Lyon, France, are part of an international team reporting on the discovery of a new class of antibiotics. The...

Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Emanating from the cell bodies are Pili -- protein polymers involved in movement, adhesion, and DNA transformation. Image/Nicholas Lab, UNC School of Medicine

Gonorrhea: UNC researchers identify mutations that could lead to ‘superbug’ strains

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The bacterium that causes the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea is resistant to multiple standard antibiotics and now threatens to develop resistance against ceftriaxone, which is on the World Health...

carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (CRKP) /CDC

CDC: More than 220 instances of bacteria with ‘unusual’ antibiotic resistance genes in the United States in 2017

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Health departments working with CDC’s Antibiotic Resistance (AR) Lab Network found more than 220 instances of germs with “unusual” antibiotic resistance genes in the United States last year, according...

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Favipiravir in high doses may be effective against Ebola

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High doses of favipiravir extended survival in non-human primates infected with Ebola virus, according to a new study published this week in PLOS Medicine by Jeremie Guedj of INSERM, France, and colleagues. Despite...

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Antibiotic resistance: Low-income and middle-income countries report increases in antibiotic consumption, fueling the problem

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Despite the threat of a global health crisis in antibiotic resistance, worldwide use of antibiotics in humans soared 39 percent between 2000 and 2015, fueled by dramatic increases in low-income and middle-income...

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Antibiotics: Synthesized teixobactin used to treat a bacterial infection in mice

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A “game changing” new antibiotic which is capable of killing superbugs has been successfully synthesized and used to treat an infection for the first time — and could lead to the first...

carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (CRKP) /CDC

Promising alternative to antibiotic treatment for multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae: Study

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Researchers are developing a promising alternative to antibiotic treatment for infections caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteria resistant to carbapenem antibiotics. The approach uses antibodies to...