When Andrew Speaker boarded an Air France flight for Paris last month carrying a form of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis, he became a global pariah–both for the lethal bug in his system and ...

Inside every human is a thriving zoo of bacteria, fungi, viruses and other microscopic organisms collectively known as the microbiome. Trillions of microbes live in the digestive tract alone, a ...

Human history was forever changed with the discovery of antibiotics in 1928. Infectious diseases such as pneumonia, tuberculosis and sepsis were widespread and lethal until antibiotics made them ...

The Department of Veterinary Services (DVS) says animal-based food products remain safe for consumption, despite surveillance ...

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FRANKFURT — Swiss drugmaker Roche (ROG.S), said on Monday it would advance testing of an antibiotic against a common drug-resistant bacteria that causes serious hospital infections into the third and ...

WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new antibiotic to treat an intestinal infection that afflicts more than 700,000 U.S. patients each year and can be fatal. Optimer ...

Drug-resistant bugs are evolving faster than new medicines are being developed, rendering the current arsenal of medicines increasingly ineffective. But the more we understand about the microbiome, ...