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 ...

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 ...

Our world is rapidly running out of antibiotics that can combat bacteria and other microorganisms that have developed antimicrobial resistance. (Photo by Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty Images ...

Learn how plastic pollution is creating new pathways for antibiotic resistance to become an even bigger public health threat.

New study reveals that bacteria can survive antibiotic treatment through two fundamentally different "shutdown modes," not ...

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

A groundbreaking antibiotic discovery might finally tip the balance in the global fight against drug-resistant bacteria. Scientists have unveiled a rare molecule with a fresh way to stop dangerous ...

New research led by King's College London, in collaboration with the University of Westminster, has shed light on the diversity and characteristics of E. coli strains that drive diabetic foot ...