In promising experiments, phage therapy forces bacteria into a no-win dilemma that lowers their defenses against drugs they’d ...

Our immune systems will cure many minor bacterial infections on their own, if given the chance, and antibiotics have no effect on viral infections at all. Every time antibiotics are used ...

Penicillin was hailed as "the silver bullet" when it was discovered, as it had the unprecedented quality of being able to kill disease-causing bacteria without harming the human body. Since then, a ...

Researchers have isolated 18 bacterial strains from stool from healthy people that could potentially be a more effective treatment for antibiotic-resistant gut infections. The team found that these ...

Once hailed globally as “miracle drugs”, antibiotics have toppled off their pharmacological pedestal, thanks to widespread abuse by people. This abuse has triggered the evolution of bacterial ...

Your infection comes back a week later. Well, what happens is, you knocked out all the bacteria that were sensitive to the antibiotics; the bacteria that were resistant, they're there, they're ...

When you are sick with a bacterial infection, your doctor will have you take medicines for a certain number of days to feel better. These medicines may be grape- or bubble gum-flavored liquids, or ...

Antibiotics can help some bacteria survive for longer, new research suggests. Until now it had been thought that antibiotics ...

Evolutionary biologist Tiffany Taylor explores the work being done to resensitize antibiotic-resistant bacteria to drugs ... solutions are devised in the background. One way to achieve this ...

For this combination – the antibiotic methicillin and the bacteria S. aureus – the number of attributable deaths nearly doubled from 57,200 in 1990 to 130,000 in 2021. Using statistical ...

Antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections often occur in patients with chronic inflammatory intestinal conditions, such as ...