New Tool in the AMR Fight: Synthetic RNA That Hugs Bad Bacterial RNA and Won’t Let Go
The Big Idea A new technique my colleagues and I developed that can kill deadly, multidrug-resistant bacteria in real time ...
Tag: Antibiotic Resistance
Bacteria ‘Shuffle’ Their Genetics Around to Develop Antibiotic Resistance on Demand
Antibiotic resistance – the ability of harmful bacteria to survive treatment by antibiotics – is a growing threat. It is ...
Examining the Long-term Health and Economic Effects of Antimicrobial Resistance in the United States
The National Academies will convene a meeting Examining the Long-term Health and Economic Effects of Antimicrobial Resistance in the United ...
BARDA Vaccines Against AMR Threats Virtual Workshop
Join the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) at the Vaccines against AMR Threats virtual workshop on March 12, 2021 ...
DoD Biosurveillance Program Collaborates to Combat Antibiotic Resistance
The Department of Defense Global Emerging Infections Surveillance (GEIS) Program, a branch of the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Division within ...
One Health Day 2020 – Disease Prevention, Public Health and Global Security in Action
One Health Day, held annually on Nov. 3, is an international campaign to engage as many individuals as possible on ...
Is Your Infection Bacterial or Viral? DoD-Backed Screening Device Gives Quick Answers
If the cause of an illness is bacterial, then an antibiotic can help; if the cause of the illness is ...
Scientists Engineer Bacteria-Killing Molecules from Wasp Venom
Novel antibiotics are urgently needed to treat the ever-increasing number of drug-resistant infections. Venoms constitute a treasure trove of novel ...
Genome of Alexander Fleming’s Original Penicillin-Producing Mould Sequenced
Researchers have sequenced the genome of Alexander Fleming's penicillin mould for the first time and compared it to later versions. ...
Funding for Preclinical Development of Countermeasures Against Select Pathogens
A new funding opportunity from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Partnerships for Countermeasures Against Select Pathogens, ...
Global Spread of the Multi-Resistant Pathogen Stenotrophomonas Maltophilia
S. maltophilia strains occur in several natural and human associated ecosystems. The bacterium was long regarded as relatively unproblematic but is ...
Health Security Today – 27 Feb 2020
FEATURED POLICY + PREPAREDNESS Schumer Proposes $8.5 Billion in Emergency Coronavirus Funding Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) today released ...
Trial Shows Two Drugs Not Better Than One When Treating MRSA
Researchers attempting to improve the treatment for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) blood infections have discovered the combination of two antibiotics ...
More People in the U.S. Dying from Antibiotic-Resistant Infections than Previously Estimated
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today released its updated Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the United States (AR Threats Report) ...
Senate Funding Bills Recognize, but Fall Short of Needs for Critical Infectious Disease Responses
The following statement released on Sept. 19 from the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) is published here in its ...
In Fight Against Superbugs, BARDA Looks to Shore Up National Stockpile Countermeasures
A crisis has arisen from the simultaneous decrease in the number of pharmaceutical companies developing antibiotics and the dramatic increase ...
