antibiotics

Wound healing: Genetically engineered cheese bacteria may help chronic wounds to heal

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Lactococcus lactis bacteria have been engineered to produce skin-healing proteins and could be useful for treating diabetic ulcers Health 15 March 2022 By Alice Klein Lactococcus lactis bacteria seen in a scanning electron microscope image STEVE GSCHMEISSNER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Cheese-making bacteria have been engineered to produce skin repair proteins that promote rapid healing when applied … Read more

UTIs can be prevented with an antiseptic drug

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By Jason Arunn Murugesu A coloured scanning electron micrograph of Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria on bladder cells in a urine sample from a patient with a urinary tract infection SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY An antiseptic drug that inhibits the growth of bacteria in urine may be as effective as antibiotics in the prevention of recurring … Read more

UTIs can be prevented with an antiseptic drug

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By Jason Arunn Murugesu A coloured scanning electron micrograph of Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria on bladder cells in a urine sample from a patient with a urinary tract infection SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY An antiseptic drug that inhibits the growth of bacteria in urine may be as effective as antibiotics in the prevention of recurring … Read more

Bumblebees: Antibiotic used on crops might make it harder for the insects to forage

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Streptomycin, an antibiotic used to treat bacterial diseases in apple orchards, might have a negative impact on bee foraging behaviour Life 23 February 2022 By Gary Hartley A common eastern bumblebee (Bombus impatiens) Clarence Holmes Wildlife/Alamy Exposure to streptomycin, an antibiotic used to treat crop diseases in the US, weakens the foraging ability of the … Read more

The 3rd Leading Global Cause of Death Is Likely Not What You Think, New Study Reveals

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Antibiotic resistance is often seen as a ‘future problem’, but newly published data have revealed it’s affecting far, far more lives than you might imagine. In fact, the new estimates show that in 2019, there were 4.95 million deaths associated with bacterial antimicrobial resistance, making it the third leading cause of death worldwide.   Drugs … Read more

Special Phage Therapy Clears a Patient’s Resistant Infection After 798 Days

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After 700 days of antibiotic treatment, the infection of a 30-year-old bombing attack victim still raged. Tragically, the patient had suffered life-threatening injuries during the attacks at Brussels airport on 22 March 2016. Over the next three years, she faced numerous medical complications, as her fracture-related wound became infected with pan-drug-resistant bacteria, or what we … Read more

Origins of Drug-Resistant Superbug Weren’t What We Thought, Surprise Discovery Shows

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An evolutionary battle between fungi and bacteria on hedgehogs’ skin gave rise to a type of antibiotic-resistant bacteria long before humans started using the antibiotics that were thought to lead to such superbugs, a new study reveals.   Researchers traced some lineages of the superbug MRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, to a parasitic fungus found … Read more

MRSA: Bacteria on hedgehogs evolved antibiotic resistance before use of drugs

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A strain of the antibiotic-resistant bacterium MRSA seems to have colonised the skin of hedgehogs more than 200 years ago – and many other similarly evasive bugs might exist in nature Life 5 January 2022 By Jessica Hamzelou A European hedgehog Coatesy/Shutterstock A strain of the antibiotic-resistant bacterium MRSA seems to have evolved in hedgehogs … Read more