antibiotic resistance
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Scientist Sleuths Used DNA To Track Spread Of Superbug
When an outbreak occurs, in order to effectively figure out how to stop it, researchers typically try to figure out how it started. The answer to that question, though, can be elusive. And as so-called superbug infections have spread across the country’s hospitals, scientists and public health officials have subsequently struggled to understand how these…
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Experts Sound The Alarm As Drug Resistant Gonorrhoea Goes Global
Describing it as a “serious situation,” the World Health Organisation has issued a grim warning about the dramatic rise of antibiotic resistant gonorrhoea around the world. The agency is now calling for the quick development of drugs to treat the sexually transmitted disease.
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Watch As Bacteria Evolve Antibiotic Resistance In A Gigantic Petri Dish
By building a gigantic petri dish, researchers from Harvard Medical School and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have produced a jaw-dropping visualisation showing bacteria as it mutates to become resistant to drugs.
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Chlorine Treatment Can Accelerate Antibiotic Resistance, Study Says
As anyone who’s ever owned a pet fish or gone to a public swimming pool knows, chlorine is commonly used to disinfect water. Ironically, when it comes to sewage treatment, it may be doing just the opposite.