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 ...

In all, the megacluster provides a sophisticated siege on an essential pathway in many bacteria, including Streptomyces’ foes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A newly discovered antibiotic from soil bacteria attacks microbes in a unique way, offering hope against drug-resistant infections ...

Four antibiotic compounds produced in Streptomyces bacteria attack multiple parts of an essential metabolic pathway.

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 ...

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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 ...