Recent estimates indicate that deadly antibiotic-resistant infections will rapidly escalate over the next quarter century.

This literature review discusses various topical antibiotic treatment options for uncomplicated skin infections ... resistance selection among other bacteria in the body compared with oral ...

The discovery could pave the way to starving antibioitc-resistant bacteria without new drugs or harmful chemicals.

A recent study has shown that nanoplastics – plastic particles smaller than 0.001 millimeters – affect the body's ability to ...

Necrotizing fasciitis is a rare, life-threatening illness caused by bacteria that aggressively attack the soft tissue of the ...

The results appear October 24 in the journal Device. "This opens up exciting possibilities for drug-free treatments, ...

Researchers found that when influenza patients take antibiotics — which are meant to treat bacterial infections, not viral illness — it disrupts the gut's fungal microbiome. This disruption ...

Trial reaches dosing milestone, with 20 of the 30 total patients dosedAll patients dosed met the primary endpoints of the study, either a cure or ...

Bacterial endocarditis can develop suddenly, slowly over weeks or months, or following a heart valve replacement. Antibiotic treatment can fight the infection and help a person make a full recovery.

A concerning increase in global rates of severe invasive infections becoming resistant to key antibiotics has a team of infectious disease researchers studying a recently emerged strain of bacteria ...