A new study has found that a highly antibiotic-resistant strain of the superbug MRSA -- methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus -- has emerged in livestock in the last 50 years, probably due to ...

An antibiotic-resistant strain can spread to humans. Feb. 21, 2012— -- Livestock in the United States may be building resistance to deadly bacterial infections, and those superbugs may be easily ...

If you’ve ever raised a kid prone to ear infections, you are probably all too familiar with the “cillins”—penicillin, methicillin, amoxicillin, oxacillin. When my daughter would wake in the middle of ...

Rajiv Bahl expressed concern that people will be rendered “helpless” against bacterial infections unless the misuse and overuse of antibiotics is stopped ...

Researchers at Clemson University have been investigating how antibiotic resistance can move between species, including from humans into animals. Infectious diseases that can jump species are called ...

Antibiotic resistance in bottlenose dolphins shows that up to 88% of pathogenic organisms in this species is resistant to one or more antibiotics. This finding offers very useful insights into the ...

Sabiha Essack receives funding from the World Health Organization, the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, the National Research Foundation and the South African Medical Research Council.