Infections caused by the most dangerous class of drug-resistant bacteria in the United States surged 69% between 2019 and 2023, and one strain carrying the NDM enzyme rose 461% over the same period.

Antibiotics transformed modern medicine, saving millions of lives and dramatically increasing life expectancy. But decades ...

Scientists pieced together the genetic history of Acinetobacter baumannii — a notoriously stubborn hospital pathogen — using ...

An international team of researchers argues that increasingly hot weather has been responsible for roughly one quarter of emerging antibiotic-resistant Salmonella genes since 1940. Reading time 3 ...

The World Health Organization sounded the alarm Monday over soaring numbers of drug-resistant bacterial infections, compromising the effectiveness of life-saving treatments and rendering minor ...

Collaborating researchers have made a breakthrough discovery regarding the intricate defense systems of bacteriophages (phages)—viruses that can specifically target harmful bacteria without harming ...

A quiet discovery inside a familiar soil microbe is reshaping how scientists think about the future of antibiotics. Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago have identified a new compound ...

The structure you see above has been nicknamed a “comet,” but it’s really bacteria streaking across an agar plate. Scientists have found out that superbugs, antibiotic resistant bacteria, can move, ...

So far, so good: Aotearoa New Zealand’s critically endangered kākāpō parrots are not showing signs of antibiotic resistant bacteria – yet. Celebrity kākāpō, Sirocco, on Maud Island in 2012. (Credit: ...