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Antibiotics during pregnancy may reduce preterm births in women with...
An international group of researchers, from the UK and Zimbabwe, found that women living with HIV who took the antibiotic...
Age, sex, location could be important to antibiotic resistance, study...
15 March 2024 2:30 PMAntibiotic, or antimicrobial, resistance is a global public health threat and occurs when disease-causing germs evolve and develop a resistance to the...
Researchers find antibiotics that circumvent bacterial resistance
18 Feb 2024 1:30 PMThe antibiotic neomycin effectively lowers harmful germs that have evolved resistance to a number of commonly used antimicrobial drugs.
Preservatives used in food have unexpected effects on gut microbiome:...
3 Feb 2024 7:54 AMFood manufacturers often add preservatives to food products to keep them fresh. The primary purpose of these preservatives is to kill microbes that...
High antibiotic use not the only reason for spread of superbugs: Study
13 Jan 2024 4:54 AMResearchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, the University of Oslo, the University of Cambridge, and collaborators, conducted a high-resolution...
AI-based new catheter to help prevent bacterial infections
8 Jan 2024 12:30 PMThe most common bacterial infections in a health care setting comes from bacteria entering the body through catheters, thin tubes inserted in the...
Scientists develop new antibiotic that can kill drug-resistant...
4 Jan 2024 12:00 PMThe US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also classified the Gram-negative bacteria as an urgent threat.
Chlorine disinfectants ineffective in killing hospital superbugs
22 Nov 2023 2:30 PMThe chlorine chemicals are no more effective at damaging the spores when used as a surface disinfectant -- than using water with no additives.