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COVID pan-endemic! Everyone included.
The unprecedented global pandemic of COVID-19 has brought the world to its knees. It has now made two important aspects very clear, the...
The Space Station is Teeming with Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria
Looking up at the night sky brings to mind flights of fancy and traveling through space on far off adventures. In reality, astronauts on the Intern
Bacterial hibernation: an enigmatic process
A brand new area of antibiotic drug development is on the horizon as researchers recently unlocked the molecular mechanism controlling the mysterious process of bacterial hibernation. A mechanism of resistance that...
AMR: World Antibiotic Awareness Week (WAAW)
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and Multi Drug Resistance (MDR) are the two terms that depicts the near ghastly future about antibiotics. Is this the end of antibiotics era? Is it harm to use an...
Circumventing antimicrobial resistance via collateral gain?
The word ‘collateral’ elicits an unpleasant image of unintended damages in our minds. Sometimes though, the collateral effects could be welcome. At least that was the thought of the group of doctors and scienti...
Optimized Natural Products: Powerful Agents against Multidrug-resistant Gram-negative Bacteria
The rise of multidrug resistant (MDR) pathogens is an alarming trend that is being observed around the world. This has been met with a dwindling number of antibiotic options available to physic...
Antibiotic-resistant infections: why should we be concerned?
This week is World Antibiotic Awareness Week, an initiative by the WHO to increase global awareness of antibiotic resistance. In 2016, the Unit...
Processed sugars are the icing on the cake for C. difficile infections
In the early 2000s an intestinal superbug began quietly spreading through hospitals around the world causing a deadly form of diarrhea among...
