Superbugs

Researchers are revisiting streptothricin, an antibiotic developed over 80 years ago and previously sidelined due to toxicity concerns, now being studied as nourseothricin.

Infections of drug-resistant superbugs are projected to kill nearly 40 million people over the next 25 years, a global analysis predicted on Monday, as the researchers called for action to avoid this grim scenario.

Wild great apes often consume medicinal plants that can treat their ailments. The same plants are often used by local people in traditional medicine.

The study, published in August in the journal Drinking Water claims that these disease-causing germs were found in almost half of soda fountains.

Infections from some antibiotic-resistant pathogens known as superbugs have more than doubled in health care facilities in Europe, an EU agency said on Thursday, providing further evidence of the wider impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The National Health Service (NHS) in the UK is planning to use gut bacteria extracted from healthy donor's faeces to treat these patients with the transplant.

Superbug infections killed 1.2 million people in 2019, according to a study published Thursday, which authors described as the most comprehensive assessment of the impact of antimicrobial resistance to date.

Antibiotic-resistant "superbugs" -- which the World Health Organization calls one of the top global threats to public health -- usually conjure images of hospital settings.

Authorities in Tuscany, home to some of Italy's most visited tourist attractions, have stepped up hospital controls after a deadly outbreak of the superbug that first surfaced in Delhi.

In a significant find in the global spread of multi-drug resistant (MDR) bacteria, scientists have found a "superbug" gene -- first detected in New Delhi over a decade back -- in one of the last "pristine" places on Earth that is some 12,870 km away

The ISS houses thousands of different microbes which have travelled into space either on astronauts or in cargo.

The soil the researchers analysed originated from an area of Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, which is known as the Boho Highlands.

Millions of people in Europe, North America and Australia will die from superbug infections unless countries prioritise fighting the growing threat posed by bacteria immune to most known drugs, experts predicted Wednesday.

According to the study published in the journal Microbiology, cinnamaldehyde, a component of cinnamon essential oil can help fight superbugs by inhibiting the development of even those bacteria that resist the most potent antibiotics

India has few weapons to fight infection after years of poorly controlled antibiotic use in humans and animals, combined with effluent from the local drug industry that turned lakes and streams into breeding grounds for resistance.

Researchers are revisiting streptothricin, an antibiotic developed over 80 years ago and previously sidelined due to toxicity concerns, now being studied as nourseothricin.

Infections of drug-resistant superbugs are projected to kill nearly 40 million people over the next 25 years, a global analysis predicted on Monday, as the researchers called for action to avoid this grim scenario.

Wild great apes often consume medicinal plants that can treat their ailments. The same plants are often used by local people in traditional medicine.

The study, published in August in the journal Drinking Water claims that these disease-causing germs were found in almost half of soda fountains.

Infections from some antibiotic-resistant pathogens known as superbugs have more than doubled in health care facilities in Europe, an EU agency said on Thursday, providing further evidence of the wider impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The National Health Service (NHS) in the UK is planning to use gut bacteria extracted from healthy donor's faeces to treat these patients with the transplant.

Superbug infections killed 1.2 million people in 2019, according to a study published Thursday, which authors described as the most comprehensive assessment of the impact of antimicrobial resistance to date.

Antibiotic-resistant "superbugs" -- which the World Health Organization calls one of the top global threats to public health -- usually conjure images of hospital settings.

Authorities in Tuscany, home to some of Italy's most visited tourist attractions, have stepped up hospital controls after a deadly outbreak of the superbug that first surfaced in Delhi.

In a significant find in the global spread of multi-drug resistant (MDR) bacteria, scientists have found a "superbug" gene -- first detected in New Delhi over a decade back -- in one of the last "pristine" places on Earth that is some 12,870 km away

The ISS houses thousands of different microbes which have travelled into space either on astronauts or in cargo.

The soil the researchers analysed originated from an area of Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, which is known as the Boho Highlands.

Millions of people in Europe, North America and Australia will die from superbug infections unless countries prioritise fighting the growing threat posed by bacteria immune to most known drugs, experts predicted Wednesday.

According to the study published in the journal Microbiology, cinnamaldehyde, a component of cinnamon essential oil can help fight superbugs by inhibiting the development of even those bacteria that resist the most potent antibiotics

India has few weapons to fight infection after years of poorly controlled antibiotic use in humans and animals, combined with effluent from the local drug industry that turned lakes and streams into breeding grounds for resistance.