[ad_1] An inexpensive FDA-approved drug, cholestyramine, taken in combination with an antibiotic prevents the antibiotic from driving antimicrobial resistance, according to new research by scientists at Penn State and the University of Michigan. The team’s findings appear today (December 1) in the journal eLife. “Antimicrobial resistance is a serious problem …
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[ad_1] Antibiotics are used to prevent and treat bacterial infections. They have played an important role in the fight against infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, pneumonia, typhoid fever and meningitis in 20th century. However, the misuse of antibiotics has also led to the development of so-called multi-drug resistance (MDR) whereby …
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[ad_1] Global antimicrobial resistance, as dangerous as a pandemic, threatens to undo a century of medical progress, the World Health Organization has warned. This resistance occurs when bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites resist under the influence of drugs, including antibiotics, which makes infections more difficult to treat and increases the …
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[ad_1] Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.November 20, 2020 A collaborative research group from the University of Oklahoma, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and Merck & Co. published an opinion piece in the journal, Chemical biology of nature, which addresses the gap in the discovery of new antibiotics. The rapid spread …
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[ad_1] Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.November 18, 2020 For a slow-growing microbe that multiplies infrequently, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the pathogen that causes tuberculosis (TB) has long puzzled researchers as to how it develops resistance to antibiotics so quickly, within weeks or months. Now, TB researchers at San Diego State University have …
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