Infection Control Today - Antibiotic Resistance

Open-Access Journal on Antibiotic Resistance and Infection Control is Launched

Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control (ARIC), a new peer-reviewed journal, will feature its first thematic issue. An online, open-access publication, ARIC is designed to offer a uniquely global forum for all researchers working in the fields related to the ...More

February 28, 2012

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Coalition Asks Congress to Approve Legislation for New Drugs to Treat Infections

Congress must seize the opportunity this year in “must-pass legislation” to head off a growing public health crisis – the inability to treat deadly antibiotic-resistant “super bugs” – by addressing the lack of new antibiotics in development. The Infectious Diseases Society ...More

February 23, 2012

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Researchers Find New Compound to Fight Strep Throat Infection

Researchers have discovered a promising alternative to common antibiotics used to fight the bacteria that causes strep throat. In an article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the scientists discussed how their discovery could fight the ...More

February 21, 2012

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Soil Bacteria, Pathogens Share Antibiotic Resistance Genes

Disease-causing bacteria’s efforts to resist antibiotics may get help from their distant bacterial relatives that live in the soil, new research at Washington University School of Medicine suggests. The researchers found identical genes for antibiotic resistance in soil ...More

February 20, 2012

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A Step Closer to Understanding and Averting Drug Resistance

Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is growing exponentially, contributing to an estimated 99,000 deaths from hospital-associated infections in the U.S. annually, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. One reason that this is happening is that drug ...More

February 1, 2012

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Study Provides New Impetus in the Battle Against Superbugs

Scientists have shed new light on the way superbugs such as MRSA are able to become resistant to treatment with antibiotics. Researchers have mapped the complex molecular structure of an enzyme found in many bacteria. These molecules – known as restriction enzymes – control ...More

January 31, 2012

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Drugs Used to Fight Cancer May Also Combat Antibiotic Resistance

Drugs used to overcome cancer may also combat antibiotic resistance, finds a new study led by Gerry Wright, scientific director of the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research at McMaster University. "Our study found that certain proteins, called ...More

December 23, 2011

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New Paper Calls for Strong Steps to Tackle Antibiotic Resistance

Shahriar Mobashery, a University of Notre Dame researcher, is one of the coauthors of a new paper by a group of the world's leading scientists in academia and industry that calls for strong steps to be taken to control the global crisis of antibiotic resistance in bacteria. ...More

December 9, 2011

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Sewage Treatment Plants May Contribute to Antibiotic Resistance Problem

Water discharged into lakes and rivers from municipal sewage treatment plants may contain significant concentrations of the genes that make bacteria antibiotic-resistant. That's the conclusion of a new study on a sewage treatment plant on Lake Superior in the Duluth, Minn., ...More

December 8, 2011

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New Compound Defeats Drug-Resistant Bacteria

It’s no wonder that medicine’s effort to combat bacterial infections is often described as an arms race. When new drugs are developed to combat infections, the bacterial target invariably comes up with a deterrent. A particularly ingenious weapon in the bacterial arsenal is ...More

November 28, 2011

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