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This 2014 image depicts Centers for Disease Control (CDC) microbiologist Kitty Anderson holding up two Petri dish culture plates growing bacteria in the presence of discs containing various antibiotics. The isolate, i.e., bacterial specie, on the left plate is susceptible to the antibiotics on the discs, and is therefore, unable to grow adjacent to the discs. The plate on the right was inoculated with a Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) bacterium that proved to be resistant to all of the antibiotics tested, and is therefore, able to grow near the discs/CDC

Multidrug-resistant bacteria found colonized in a quarter of nursing home residents

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The significant presence of multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacteria (MDR-GNB), such as E. coli, among nursing home residents demonstrates the need for heightened infection control prevention and control...

This is a bacteriophages (green) attacking a bacterium (orange). Image courtesy of Graham Beards

Bacteriophage therapy treats patient near death with MDR Acinetobacter baumannii

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Scientists and physicians at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, working with colleagues at the U.S. Navy Medical Research Center – Biological Defense Research Directorate (NMRC-BDRD),...

Tablets like these, made at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) by a research team led by Pamela Weathers, professor of biology and biotechnology, were used to treat 18 critically ill malaria patients in the Congo who had not responded to standard medications. All 18 fully recovered. Image/Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Malaria tablets made only from Artemisia annua dried leaves cures 18

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When the standard malaria medications failed to help 18 critically ill patients, the attending physician in a Congo clinic acted under the “compassionate use” doctrine and prescribed a not-yet-approved...

New chlamydia drug targets discovered using CRISPR and stem cells

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Scientists at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and their collaborators at the University of British Columbia have created an innovative technique for studying how chlamydia interacts with the human...

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VIBATIV®: Theravance Biopharma reports new preliminary data from the ongoing TOUR study

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Theravance Biopharma, Inc. today announced that new preliminary data from the ongoing Telavancin Observational Use Registry (TOUR™) study are the focus of three poster presentations at the 27th European...

E. coli/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

Drug-resistant bacteria in patients’ urine or stools raise risk of drug-resistant sepsis

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People who have recently been found to have drug-resistant bacteria in their urine or stool samples have a greatly increased risk of developing a bloodstream infection that is also resistant to certain...

Hepatitis C replication Image/ GrahamColm

Investigational dose of oral interferon-free treatment can cure hepatitis C in children

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A study that evaluated an investigational dosage of once-daily ledipasvir 45 mg/sofosbuvir 200 mg (LDV/SOF) in children aged six to 11 years infected with the Hepatitis C virus (HCV), found that 99% of...

While Penicillia are already industrially used in the production of antibiotics, other pharmaceuticals, industrial enzymes and in the manufacturing of food products, new research reveals that their potential for production of novel antibiotics is far from exhausted. Penicillia are naturally found in temperate climates growing on organic matter, including soil, plant material, dung and food products. The isolation of novel bioactive compounds from these species might encompass a source of new antibiotics to fight infectious microorganisms. Image/Jens Christian Nielsen

Fungi a ‘potential goldmine’ for the production of new antibiotics

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Fungi are a potential goldmine for the production of pharmaceuticals. This is shown by researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, who have developed a method for finding new antibiotics from nature’s...

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CDC issues Shigella health advisory

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a health advisory Tuesday describing the identification of emerging Shigella strains with elevated minimum inhibitory concentration values...

Bacteriophages can potentially be used to combat antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections. Image: Sabrina Green/Baylor College of Medicine

Bacteriophages: Viruses that specifically kill bacteria can potentially be used to combat ‘superbugs’

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Viruses that specifically kill bacteria, called bacteriophages, might one day help solve the growing problem of bacterial infections that are resistant to antibiotic treatment. Researchers at Baylor College...