Pet owners can share bacteria with their pets – and vice versa, which can increase the risk of antimicrobial resistance on each side. Antimicrobial resistance happens when bacteria and other germs ...

Vermicomposting earthworms help turn manure into organic fertilizer, representing a potential tool against antibiotic ...

Once seen as a lasting medical breakthrough, antibiotics are steadily losing their effectiveness. Around the world, ...

Plastics entering natural environments quickly become coated with microbial biofilms called the 'plastisphere', known to be hotspots for antibiotic resistance genes, the team, including researchers ...

Viruses living on plastic surfaces could be contributing to the spread of antibiotic resistance, raising global environmental ...

Antibiotics that escape into the environment are widely recognized as a growing threat to ecosystems, wastewater treatment ...

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Researchers at the University of Glasgow have developed a new diagnostic platform for identifying microbial infections in as ...

Researchers at McMaster University have discovered a vulnerability in drug-resistant bacteria: zinc—or a lack thereof. Depriving bacteria of certain nutrients can cause important physiological changes ...

A global DNA deep dive shows why E. coli infections in diabetic foot wounds can be so stubborn, dangerous, and hard to treat.

Even with correct antibiotic doses, some bacterial infections return because persister cells survive treatment by entering ...

The Institute of Allied Health Sciences (IAHS) at Srinivas University organized a guest lecture for faculty members on the ...