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Reconstructing ancient bacterial genomes can revive previously unknown molecules – offering a potential source for new antibiotics

Microorganisms – in particular bacteria – are skillful chemists that can produce an impressive diversity of chemical compounds known as natural products. These metabolites provide the microbes major evolutionary advantages, such as allowing them to interact with one another or their environment and helping defend against different threats. Because of…

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Why It Matters | Antibiotic-resistant bacteria found in Sunderban sediments

The bacteria found in sunderban sediments are developing antibiotic-resistant genes (ARG) due to the constant dumping of waste and pollutants

The Hindu

Use of antibiotics in farming ‘endangering human immune system’

Study suggests antimicrobial used to promote livestock growth breeds bacteria more resistant to our natural defences

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Happy Pear twins apologise after controversial antibiotic comments from podcast guest

The Happy Pear brothers responded after a guest's remarks about antibiotics caused considerable controversy online

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Scientists invent 'shape-shifting' antibiotic to fight deadly superbugs

Scientists have developed a new "shape-shifting" antibiotic to fight drug-resistant bacteria, but it hasn't been tested in humans yet.

LiveScience

Happy Pear twins apologise after antibiotic comments from podcast guest spark backlash

The Happy Pear brothers responded after a guest's remarks about antibiotics caused considerable outrage online

Irish Mirror

'Shape-shifting' antibiotic gives hope in superbug war

Scientists from the University of Adelaide hope the discovery of a new technique to bolster antibiotics can be used in the fight against superbugs.

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Antibiotic with no side effects could be on horizon as microbe clue found

Scientists said they identified have compounds that reduce the risk of nausea, indigestion, bloating and diarrhoea

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Dogs and cats ‘passing on antibiotic-resistant superbugs to owners’

Drug-resistant infections kill around 700,000 people a year globally

The Independent UK

Drug-resistant 'superbugs' found in almost half of supermarket meat samples analysed by scientists

E. coli strains capable of causing severe infections in people were also 'highly' prevalent

Wales Online

Dogs and cats passing antibiotic-resistant 'superbugs' to their owners

These could include E. coli bacteria and another linked with pneumonia, say scientists

Wales Online

Drug-resistant E. coli may be in the meat you just bought for dinner. Here’s how to keep your kitchen safe

Multidrug-resistant E. coli were found in 40% of store-bought meat samples tested in one Spanish city in 2020, according to data that will be presented this weekend at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases in Copenhagen.

Fortune

California man dies from flesh-eating disease caught after chasing his dog into pond

Jeff Bova tried to tough his way through the infection treating it with antibiotic cream but eventually relented and went to a hospital. He sadly died two days later

Daily Mirror

Looming behind antibiotic resistance is another huge threat—antibiotic tolerance

By understanding why bacteria have the ability to become tolerant, researchers hope to develop ways to avoid the spread of this ability.

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Discovery of antibiotic-resistant superbugs in LA wastewater sparks worry

LOS ANGELES — Bacteria that are resistant to colistin, a last-resort antibiotic, have for the first time been detected in Los Angeles County wastewater, suggesting that the germs are circulating more widely in the community than previously thought, according to researchers at the University of Southern California.

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Looming behind antibiotic resistance is another bacterial threat – antibiotic tolerance

Have you ever had a nasty infection that just won’t seem to go away? Or a runny nose that keeps coming back? You may have been dealing with a bacterium that is tolerant of, though not yet resistant to, antibiotics.

The Independent UK

Scientists turn to honey in their urgent search for alternative antibiotics

Over one million people died globally from antibiotic-resistant infections in 2019

Daily Mirror

Top scientist could die before receiving her Nobel Prize for life-saving antibiotic

Kirsty Smitten, 28, may not see the culmination of her work in potential Nobel Prize winning antibiotic medicine after being told she has a rare terminal heart cancer

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Strep is bad right now — and an antibiotic shortage is making it worse

Strep throat is more prevalent this year, and amoxicillin manufacturers didn't make enough of the antibiotic to go around.

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Chinchillas Tested Fancy New Ear Devices to Solve a Centuries-Old Medical Problem

A new design for ear tubes could make them safer and more effective while lowering antibiotic doses for patients.

The Independent UK

Antibiotics and resistance ‘two-way street’ between animals and humans – study

Experts across the world are determined to slow down the rise in AMR, which is partly fuelled by unnecessary use of antibiotics.

The Independent UK

Vatican: Pope spends 2nd night 'serenely' in hospital

The Vatican says Pope Francis has spent his second night in a Rome hospital serenely as he receives antibiotics intravenously to treat bronchitis

Wales Online

Top scientist, 28, has months to live after cancer mistaken for pulled muscle

Kirsty is a world leading scientist set to save tens of millions of lives with her new antibiotic medicine

Bristol Post

Bristolians urged to get tested as gonorrhoea cases continue to rise

The STI, usually treated with antibiotics, can cause infertility and pelvic inflammatory disease in patients

The Guardian - UK

E coli from meat behind half a million UTIs in the US every year, study suggests

Fatal bloodstream illnesses driven by urinary tract infections could rise, warn scientists as research shows link to food-borne bacteria

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