In an age where public health concerns are at the forefront of global attention, cleanliness and hygiene have never been more ...

Drug-resistant infections occur when pathogens change in ways that render antimicrobial drugs ineffective. As a result, the pathogens survive and continue to spread. When infections are treatable with ...

The field of cellular and infection microbiology is continuously challenged by the evolution of multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacterial infections, which ...

fungi or protozoans to grow despite exposure to antimicrobial substances designed to inhibit their growth. Microbes can evolve antimicrobial resistance when, for example, populations are subjected ...

Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) is a ticking time bomb, responsible for over one million deaths worldwide annually and ...

Stakeholders on Tuesday advocated accurate data collection, surveillance, and proper prescription practices to promote the rational use of antibiotics and combat antimicrobial resistance. The ...

Health experts have raised alarm over the misuse of antimicrobial drugs, particularly through self-medication, warning that ...

British physician and microbiologist Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin nearly 100 years ago, was the first to warn ...

A director at the National Veterinary Research Institute (NVRI), Vom, Plateau State, Dr Sati Ngulukun, has raised the alarm ...

A new NAO report says that the growing problem of AMR has been driven partly by “misuse and overuse” of antimicrobial drugs – ...

Wastewater effluent and sludge discharges are often enriched in antimicrobial drugs, antimicrobial resistance elements [i.e., genes conferring resistance and its transfer to other organisms], and ...

The mixtures also helped prevent the bacteria from developing cross-resistance to other antimicrobial drugs, while ...