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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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JAN 22, 2022Microbiology
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Researchers recently discovered bacteria that fed on the element manganese. Scientists also know that some bacterial pat ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 21, 2021Microbiology
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Antibiotic resistance is a growing threat to public health, and experts have been warning about it for so long, they've ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 12, 2021Microbiology
Bacterial pathogens are thought to be a growing threat to public health. Streptococcus pneumoniae, for example, is most ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 05, 2021Microbiology
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Antibiotic resistant bacteria pose a potentially serious threat to public health. There are a variety of ways that peopl ...Written By: Carmen Leitch
JAN 22, 2022
Microbiology
Antibiotic-resistant infections pose a serious threat to human health, which is expected to get worse. Bacterial infecti
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 05, 2022
Genetics & Genomics
Researchers were assessing the presence of bacteria in wild hedgehogs which are found in Europe and New Zealand, and fou
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 16, 2021
Microbiology
About half of Americans have used at least one prescription drug at some point in the past thirty days, according to dat
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 09, 2021
Microbiology
Microplastics pose a clear threat to the environment. They have been found nearly everywhere, from remote areas like the
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 07, 2021
Immunology
Strong chemical drugs used to obliterate all rapidly growing cells in the body have been used to treat cancer sin
...
Written By:
Tara Fernandes
DEC 06, 2021
Microbiology
As pathogenic bacteria continue to evolve and find ways to evade common medications, researchers have been racing to dev
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 29, 2021
Genetics & Genomics
There are many bacterial organisms, and they can live cooperatively, or they can battle one another. They are also capab
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 28, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
Bacteria can swap genetic material with one another easily; one way they do it is a process called bacterial conjugation
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 25, 2021
Microbiology
Copper is known to have antibacterial properties, and though it's an important chemical for many organisms, it can b
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 18, 2021
Cannabis Sciences
According to the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC), antibiotic-resistant bacterial or fungal strains infe
...
Written By:
Nadine Husami
OCT 26, 2021
Microbiology
For many years, scientists and experts have warned about a building crisis - antibiotics are becoming less reliable, bac
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 20, 2021
Microbiology
Many animals, including humans and cats, harbor huge colonies of microbes, which may live in places like the skin, or th
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 08, 2021
Microbiology
Bacteria that grow in colonies can be extremely difficult to eliminate; the bacteria in these groups often become resist
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 17, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) is a well known superbug, a pathogenic microbe that can cause serious
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 26, 2021
Microbiology
Ticks are vectors for disease; they can transmit pathogenic bacteria to animals and humans through their bites. Diseases
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 24, 2021
Microbiology
Research has indicated that babies get many benefits from breastmilk, even if they are only fed that way for a very shor
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 08, 2021
Microbiology
Researchers recently discovered bacteria that fed on the element manganese. Scientists also know that some bacterial pat
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 21, 2021
Microbiology
Blood culture is the most widely used diagnostic tool for the detection of bacteremia and fungemia. It is the most impor
...
Sponsored By:
bioMérieux Inc
JUL 21, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
Even Giant Galapagos Tortoises, (seen here migrating in a photo by Juan Manuel GarcÃa) are not safe from the world's ant
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 20, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
Antibiotics are a standard treatment for bacterial infections, but more and more of these bacterial infections can't be
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 18, 2021
Microbiology
Antibiotic resistance is a growing threat to public health, and experts have been warning about it for so long, they've
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 12, 2021
Microbiology
Bacterial pathogens are thought to be a growing threat to public health. Streptococcus pneumoniae, for example, is most
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 05, 2021
Microbiology
The natural world is full of microbes, fungi, and plants that have given us valuable medicines, like tetracyclines, peni
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 04, 2021
Microbiology
Antibiotic resistant bacteria pose a potentially serious threat to public health. There are a variety of ways that peopl
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch