The widespread use of antibiotics has long been implicated in the rise of drug-resistant infections. Now, scientists wonder whether unrelated drugs play a role too. In a new study, antidepressants — ...

Lars Stevens-Cullinane works in a dark room. But he's not processing negatives and printing photographs on light-sensitive ...

Antibiotic resistance, when infection-causing bacteria evolve so they are no longer affected by typical antibiotics, is a global concern. New research has mapped the evolution and process of natural ...

One out of ten E. coli samples contained variants that are resistant to several kinds of antibiotics, a new analysis on Norwegian blood samples revealed. The proportion of multi-resistant E. coli ...

Los Angeles County has identified the first instance of an E. coli strain with the mcr-1 gene, which makes it resistant to colistin — known as the antibiotic of last resort — for the first time the ...

A new type of E. coli that is both highly infectious and resistant to some antibiotics has been discovered. The newly identified mutation of antibiotic-resistant E. coli is described in a new paper in ...

When the world’s first antibiotic, penicillin, was discovered in 1928 and years later used to treat bacterial infections, it changed the course of modern medicine. Fast forward to now and the fiendish ...

We have known for some time that over-use of antibiotics is causing a frightening increase in antibiotic resistance in bacteria, through the rapid spread of antibiotic resistance genes. What may be ...

I order urine culture and sensitivity (C&S) when starting patients on antibiotic therapy for UTI. A number of C&S reports on otherwise healthy patients have shown Escherichia coli that is resistant to ...

Dr Muniruddin Ahmed.On October 13, The Guardian published an alarming report titled ‘Sharp global rise in ...

Experts have warned that giving your dog raw meat ups the risk of being exposed to antibiotic-resistant E. coli. E. coli is a type of bacteria that can make humans very unwell. It is one of the ...