Aerosolized antibiotics deliver effective local drug concentrations to the infection site and decrease the risk of systemic side effects associated with oral or intravenous antibiotics.

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

Forty or fifty years ago, thanks to antibiotics, scientists thought medicine had all but eradicated infectious agents as a major health threat. Instead, the past two decades have seen an alarming ...

It is the latest example of how the tools of artificial intelligence can be a revolutionary force in science and medicine. Antibiotics kill bacteria. However, there has been a lack of new drugs ...

Resistance to antibiotics has led to one million worldwide deaths each year since 1990, for a total of 36 million. It is expected to cause more than 39 million more fatalities by 2050 — three ...

Researchers have long flagged antimicrobial resistance as a public health concern, but this study is the first to analyze such trends around the world and over time.

In bacteria, mutations in plasmids can accumulate surprisingly fast. What does this mean for us humans, who have to fight with these new antibiotic resistant strains? Now, say that a few days ...

For example, instead of competing to attract customers by lowering prices or offering better contracts, they may all use similar contracts or keep prices around the same level. This anti ...

Microbes can evolve antimicrobial resistance when, for example, populations are subjected to selective pressure through drug use in medicine. Synergistic effects of oxidative and acid stress on a ...

Evolutionary biologist Tiffany Taylor explores the work being done to resensitize antibiotic-resistant bacteria ... its root genetic cause. For example, research from Despoina Mavridou, an ...

For example, toxicology studies with inhaled ... thereby preventing progression of lung disease. Some aerosolized antibiotics have been shown to provide clinical efficacy, due to high sputum ...

Taking antibiotics for a viral infection like a cold or the flu (for which antibiotics are ineffective) is an example of misuse of antibiotics. Another example is giving antibiotics to healthy animals ...