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The Current22:28AI helps kill drug-resistant superbugRead transcribed audioResearchers have discovered a promising treatment for an antibiotic-resistant superbug — with the help of artificial intelligence.Acinetobacter baumannii is a…

The deadly hospital pathogen Acinetobacter baumannii can live for a year on a hospital wall without food and water. Then, when it infects a vulnerable patient, it resists antibiotics as well as the body's built-in infection-fighting…

A mother-of-five had to have her leg amputated below the knee after developing a flesh-eating bacterial infection.Angie Fowler, now 41, from Fort Worth, Texas, broke her right leg and ankle in 2011 when she fell in the snow while playing…

Iraq could be the epicenter of a global superbug outbreak, a new study warns.Scientists at American University in Beirut, Lebanon, say decades of war in the country — including the US invasion in the 2000s — had led to a 'catastrophic rise'…

PARIS: Containing and cleaning up environmental pollution, especially in waterways, is crucial to controlling increasingly bullet-proof superbugs which could kill tens of millions by mid-century, a new UN report said on Tuesday (Feb 7).…

CDC issues urgent warning over contaminated eyedrops feared to have killed one patient and made several others go blindBy Mansur Shaheen Deputy Health Editor For Dailymail.Com Published: 17:07 GMT, 1 February 2023 |…

Kevin Garey, professor of pharmacy practice and translational research at the University of Houston College of Pharmacy is reporting the first well-controlled study to demonstrate that a microbiome therapeutic, SER-109, is associated with…

Rachel Sears was only 17 years old when a simple blemish on her face became a terrifying, painful ‘superbug’ overnight. She had been working as a cashier at a grocery store and it’s there her doctors told her she must have picked up…

A compound that both inhibits the MRSA superbug and renders it more vulnerable to antibiotics has been discovered by scientists at the University of Bath in the UK led by Dr Maisem Laabei and Dr Ian Blagbrough. The novel compound -- a…