By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The National Institute of Communicable Diseases in South Africa is reporting an outbreak of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae at the neonatal unit at Tembisa...

The first evidence of a superbug in a domestic cat that could infect humans and livestock has been discovered in Australia. The Salmonella strain is resistant to carbapenems, a drug used as the last line...

New Jersey researchers have identified what is believed to be the first strain of Escherichia coli bacteria from a patient in the United States that harbored two mobile genes making it resistant to both...