A small-molecule protein synthesis inhibitor that targets C diff without disrupting the gut microbiome was found to be highly effective and well-tolerated in a small randomized trial.
The money from the Gates Foundation, Novo Nordisk Foundation, and Wellcome has been awarded to researchers in 17 countries.
Data from 70 countries show increases in the proportion of women with secondary or higher education, and a higher proportion of women in the workforce, are associated with reduced antibiotic use.
Debio1453 is a first-in-class antibiotic candidate that targets an enzyme that’s essential for the growth of Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
In a cohort study conducted in Sweden, antibiotic-exposed newborns had a 29% increased risk of group B Streptococcus disease compared with unexposed newborns.
A review and meta-analysis finds 68% of community pharmacies and other retail medicine outlets in sub-Saharan Africa regularly dispense antibiotics without a prescription.
A study of the 4 leading bacterial causes of travelers' diarrhea found high nonsusceptibility to fluoroquinolones and macrolides, particularly in parts of Asia.
The approval of Augmentin XR is the first under the Commissioner's National Priority Voucher Program.
ProtonDx and Exhalon will each receive $1 million in seed funding to evaluate the use of blood samples and exhaled breath for diagnosing lower respiratory tract infections.
A review and meta-analysis of 89 studies shows the global prevalence of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales colonization is 14%.
Researchers identified 619 hospital-based bacterial and fungal outbreaks in 13 countries from 2020 through March 2024, and higher case-fatality ratios than reported in pre-pandemic studies.
The Healthcare Infection Prevention Advisory Group (HIPAG) will offer evidence-backed advisory expertise on infection prevention and antimicrobial stewardship.
Seres Therapeutics will receive up to $3.6 million to advance development of a liquid formulation of SER-155, its investigational microbiome drug.
Officials warn rising drug resistance could undo decades of progress in controlling HIV, hepatitis, and sexually transmitted infections.
Only 42% of respondents from 98 countries knew that antibiotics aren't effective against viruses.
Of the 438 infants in the study, 52% were colonized with at least one multidrug-resistant organism, and one-third of the colonizations were linked to transmission.
One of the projects launched by the Fleming Initiative will develop AI models to speed discovery of new antibiotics for gram-negative bacteria.
European surveillance data show incidence of bloodstream infections caused by carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae rose by 61% from 2019 to 2024.
Data from a new surveillance report show rising resistance to ceftriaxone and cefixime, the two antibiotics currently recommended for gonorrhea treatment.
The AMR portal, launched today by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute, aims to make global AMR data more accessible and usable.
A wild poliovirus type 1-positive sample was isolated from wastewater in Hamburg, Germany, this week.
Among more than 140,000 visits for ear infection, only 15% used watchful waiting, but treatment failure rates were low and similar to those for children who received antibiotics immediately.
Half of the Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates found in raw milk from dairy cattle and sheep were multidrug resistant.
More than one third of the 10,007 bacterial isolates collected from 13 West Bank hospitals were classified as multidrug-resistant.
The modeling study predicts the rate of drug-resistant BSIs will rise sharply in Europe over the next 5 years, driven primarily by an aging population.
