Sidelined by the discovery of penicillin, a special therapy could be set to return in a big way. A new study improves our understanding of h...

Antimicrobial resistance is a growing public health crisis and is estimated to be responsible for more than one million deaths globally each...

The viruses that kill bacteria may be our best bet against antibiotic resistance — if we can understand how they win.

A new proof-of-concept study explored the feasibility of tracking the evolution of superbug infections in real time to help save infected pa...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said superbugs that resist antibiotics have killed nearly twice as many people as once t...

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is associated with 559,000 yearly deaths worldwide, and many of them come from hospital-acquired infections. A new st...

"What are sometimes called superbugs — microbes resistant to every available drug — are not merely the stuff of nightmares. They are taking...

Scientists have found the first new antibiotic treatment for the sexually transmitted infection gonorrhoea since the 1990s.

Cartoon mascot ‘Andi Biotic’ is the face of a public health campaign to combat antimicrobial resistance, as data revealed 41% of young adult...

A DEADLY drug-resistant superbug is spreading “fast” in the US, with a whopping 2,000 cases in one single city.Candida auris, otherwise...

Scientists took 10 years to figure out how one type of superbug gains its ability to infect diverse bacterial species. When prompted, Google...