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Antimicrobial Resistance
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is the ability of microbes, including bacteria, viruses, and some parasites, to resist the effects of drugs, meaning that the germs are not only not killed, but there their growth is not inhibited. For obvious reasons, infections with resistant organisms are difficult to treat, requiring costly and sometimes toxic alternatives. While some people are at increased risk, no single person can avoid the risk of antibiotic-resistant infections altogether. Since organisms will always find a way to adapt and resist antibiotics, there is a heightened need to keep new resistance from developing and to prevent the resistance that already exists from spreading.
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APR 03, 2023
Clinical & Molecular DX
Shigella sonnei is a leading cause of a diarrheal disease called shigellosis in high-income countries, and this bacteria
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 31, 2023
Cell & Molecular Biology
Our microbiomes host trillions of microbes, and they can easily share resistance genes.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 13, 2023
Drug Discovery & Development
Antibiotics are a great class of drugs used to treat a variety of infections.1 However, the bacterial life cycle is much
...
Written By:
Greta Anne
MAR 07, 2023
Genetics & Genomics
Antibiotics can destroy many types of bacteria, but increasingly, bacterial pathogens are gaining resistance to many com
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 05, 2023
Microbiology
Estimates vary, but Streptococcus pyogenes infections may be responsible for the deaths of over 500,000 people every yea
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 27, 2023
Drug Discovery & Development
A new drug shows the potential to treat an exceptionally resilient sexual infection. A case study from the
...
Written By:
Amielle Moreno
FEB 27, 2023
Microbiology
The CDC has issued an alert about a rise in extensively drug-resistant (XDR) shigellosis, which causes gastrointestinal
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 24, 2023
Microbiology
Scientists have found that a gene that has been previously identified in many animals and their associated microbes can
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 24, 2023
Chemistry & Physics
Scientists at Georgia Institute of Technology have demonstrated how small shocks of electricity may be used to disinfect
...
Written By:
Kristina Punzi, Ph.D.
FEB 21, 2023
Technology
Surgery can pose a range of complications that must be closely monitored, though one of the more common complications in
...
Written By:
Ryan Vingum
FEB 17, 2023
Microbiology
Partners can accomplish amazing things, and it seems that is true for bacteria. Large colonies of bacteria called biofil
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 10, 2023
Drug Discovery & Development
A single dose of a common antibiotic could reduce postpartum sepsis risk among women who deliver vaginally. The correspo
...
Written By:
Annie Lennon
FEB 07, 2023
Microbiology
This powerful, natural compound may also be useful against pathogenic fungi that affect humans.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 11, 2023
Microbiology
A new study has shown that when people go to shopping malls, they take home more than new products, and they leave more
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 03, 2023
Clinical & Molecular DX
According to the World Health Organization, antimicrobial resistance is among the top ten global health threats facing h
...
Written By:
Zoe Michaud
DEC 28, 2022
Health & Medicine
For millennia the arms race between bacteria and animals was fought through mutations and evolution. As modern bacteria
...
Written By:
Amielle Moreno
DEC 20, 2022
Microbiology
For decades, people relied on antibiotics to eliminate bacterial infections, and for a long time, those antibiotics work
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 09, 2022
Clinical & Molecular DX
Labroots’ virtual events are a fantastic way to network and learn about the work of other researchers in your fiel
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
DEC 07, 2022
Health & Medicine
Every so often, diseases that ravaged past populations pop up in movies or TV, and every now and again an archaeologist
...
Written By:
Sarah Hoffman
DEC 03, 2022
Cell & Molecular Biology
Antibiotic resistance is a growing problem; antibiotic resistant microbes already kill tens of thousands of people aroun
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 30, 2022
Drug Discovery & Development
In the arms race between animal and bacteria, endogenous antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are our body’s way of defen
...
Written By:
Amielle Moreno
NOV 28, 2022
Microbiology
New research has shown that a vaccine for the bacteria commonly associated with urinary tract infections works in animal
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 24, 2022
Microbiology
Researchers sought to learn how dangerous drug-resistant Klebsiella, which can be found in many places, like farms, hosp
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 23, 2022
Drug Discovery & Development
One of the most significant consequences of climate change is the greenhouse gases generated from the microbial decompos
...
Written By:
Anusha Naganathan