Focusing on pathogen reduction and treatments that restore beneficial bacteria in a patient’s microbiome may be key in the fight against growing antibiotic resistance, a CDC report published May 22 ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – According to the U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, antibiotic resistance is a “quickly growing, extremely dangerous problem.” In fact, world health leaders have ...

The new research will include initiatives geared toward developing infection prevention techniques by using microorganisms present in the human body, or microbiome, to predict and assess the ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plans to launch its Antibiotic Use and Resistance reporting module this week. The system will allow hospitals to track all dispensed antibiotics and look ...

CDC reports antimicrobial resistance is an urgent global public health threat and, in the U.S., more than 2.8 million antimicrobial resistant infections occur each year 1. Antibiotic resistance ...

The mcr-1 gene, which transfers antibiotic resistance to the bacteria it’s found in, has stepped into the global spotlight in recent months, finally making its way to the U.S. in E. coli just weeks ...