WHO’s director of antimicrobial resistance, Dr Yvan Hutin, says science needs to catch up with drug-resistant bacteria.

Drugmakers must focus on developing new antibiotics to fight hospital “superbugs” including meningitis and other infections that can resist last-line treatments, the World Health Organization (WHO) ...

When a bacterium becomes resistant to one antibiotic, it may sometimes become more sensitive to another. This biological side ...

A recent review finds that microalgal niches in freshwater ecosystems may concentrate antibiotic resistance genes, raising environmental and public health concerns.

Researchers report that photodynamic therapy increases antibiotic penetration and disrupts resistance mechanisms in laboratory strains.

Pipeline of antibiotics under development is shrinking putting children at risk amid global drug resistance crisis, report ...

The antibiotic pipeline has shrunk 35 percent in five years, falling behind growing antimicrobial resistance worldwide, according to a new report. View on euronews ...

Antibiotic susceptibility in resistant bacteria is not static. New research shows that bacteria harbouring resistance genes may respond differently to antibiotics if they are tested under conditions ...

A new review titled Artificial Intelligence and the Discovery of Antibiotics: Reinventing with Opportunities, Challenges, and Clinical Translation, published in the journal Antibiotics, examines how ...

Imagine a future where common infections once easily cured by antibiotics become life-threatening again. This is the growing reality posed by antimicrobial resistance (AMR), now recognized as one of ...

​As per WHO data, AMR is an urgent global public health threat, killing at least 1.27 million people worldwide and associated with nearly 5 million deaths in 2019.

Race for new antibiotics intensifies as WHO warns drug pipeline remains thin, and remains structurally unfit to support antibiotic innovation ...