Recent estimates indicate that deadly antibiotic-resistant infections will rapidly escalate over the next quarter century. More than 1 million people died from drug-resistant infections each year ...

Antibacterial drugs are important for treating infections. But increasingly, bacterial resistance to current drugs -- so they don't work well, or even at all -- means new ones are urgently needed.

Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a drug-resistant bacteria, is a major concern for doctors [Getty Images] Enmetazobactam, developed by Chennai-based Orchid Pharma, is the first antimicrobial invented in ...

"Drug-free alternatives to treating bacterial infections are needed—and our two most recent studies show how we can indeed achieve drug-free control over antibiotic resistant bacteria," he said.

More than 1 million people died from drug-resistant infections each year from 1990 to 2021, a recent study reported, with new projections surging to nearly 2 million deaths each year by 2050.