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An international team of researchers used historical museum collections to study the effects of human-made antibiotics over the entire history of their application.

A new study has found that Danish one-year-olds carry hundred antibiotic resistant genes in their bacterial gut flora.

UIC researchers prove that drugs designed for bacteria have potential to act on human cells and may be used to treat human diseases.

by Hannah Joy on  March 17, 2021 at 10:24 PM Cefazolin, a common antibiotic can be given to most of the patients who self-report a penicillin allergy because dual allergy to both penicillin and cefazolin was just 0.7%, reveals a new study. The study was conducted by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and the University of Porto in Portugal. The researchers reported in JAMA Surgery that the frequency of allergies to both p...

Antibiotic Overuse Curbed by Rapid Test by Karishma Abhishek on  March 5, 2021 at 11:08 PM RAPID-TEST study at the Centre for Academic Primary Care, the University of Bristol, published in the journal Family Practice. microbiological point-of-care test - BioFire® Filmarray® v1.7 (bioMérieux) was evaluated in four GP practices in the South West of England over a six-week period. The test can detect 17 different types of respiratory virus and three atypical respi...

Biological Therapy Could be Another Option to Antibiotics by Angela Mohan on  February 23, 2021 at 12:07 PM Human monoclonal antibodies can act as a substitute for the traditional chemical antibiotics and protect from pathogenic bacterial challenge, as per the study led by Dr, Natalia Freund and the doctoral candidate Avia Waston at the Sackler Medical Faculty. The research group succeeded in isolating monoclonal antibodies, which hindered the growth of tuberculosis germs in ...

Study Traces Back the Evolutionary History of Antibiotic Resistance by Colleen Fleiss on  January 9, 2021 at 3:06 AM Gothenburg scientists have traced back the evolutionary history of antibiotic resistance genes. In almost all cases where an origin could be determined, the gene started to spread from bacteria that, themselves, can cause disease. While human DNA is only passed down from parent to child, bacteria also have the habit of sharing some of their genes across speci...

New Group of Antibiotics Active Against Various Bacteria by Angela Mohan on  December 24, 2020 at 11:00 AM Nature, by Wistar Institute scientists. "We took a creative, double-pronged strategy to develop new molecules that can kill difficult-to-treat infections while enhancing the natural host immune response," said Farokh Dotiwala, M.B.B.S., Ph.D., assistant professor in the Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center and lead author of the effort to identify a new generation of antimicro...