Under a microscope, this drug-resistant superbug looks as benign as a handful of pebbles. Yet carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii, or CRAB, is a nightmare for hospitals worldwide, as it ...

according to a new government report that lists and ranks 18 drug resistant bugs in order of urgency. Betsy McKay reports. Photo: AP. Another 250,000 people annually develop a bacterial infection ...

As FRONTLINE reported in Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria, one of the biggest barriers to confronting drug-resistance is that there’s so little data available. Hospitals, where such bugs can ...

Antibiotics may wipe out existing microbiomes and replace them with other, less beneficial bugs, and that may adversely ... MORE: This Chart Shows How Hard It Is to End Childhood Obesity While ...

Named fabimycin, the drug candidate worked well against more than 200 clinically isolated colonies of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, comprising a total of 54 strains of bugs like E. coli ...

Infections from a strain of drug-resistant shigella bacteria are on ... that causes an infection called shigellosis. The stomach bug causes diarrhea that can be bloody, as well as fever and ...

Ogunseitan, a professor of population health and disease prevention at UC Irvine. Drug-resistant bugs are evolving faster ...

Overusing these medications contributes to the problem of drug-resistant bugs, including the increasingly prevalent Shigella strains. Shigella cause an estimated 450,000 infections in the US each ...

Drug-resistant bacteria are already in all of us; beneficial bacteria help keep them controlled. When an antibiotic wipes out beneficial bacteria, the resistant bugs can flourish, making present ...