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Antibiotic Resistance
Antibiotic Resistance: (AMR or AR) is the ability of a microbe to resist the effects of medication that once could successfully treat the microbe. The main term antibiotic resistance (AR or ABR) is a subset of AMR, as it applies only to bacteria becoming resistant to antibiotics.
SEP 13, 2017 | 1:30 PM
The global threat of antimicrobial resistance has been recognized by the World Health Organization, the United Nations and many other expert bodies. The burden of resistant pathogens is immen...
SEP 13, 2017 | 7:30 AM
Increasing prevalence and severity of multi-drug-resistant (MDR) bacterial infections has necessitated novel antibacterial strategies. Ideally, new approaches would target bacterial pat...
SEP 13, 2017 | 6:00 AM
Adjunct probiotic therapy has the potential to decrease Clostridium difficile disease incidence and severity. After screening several potential probiotic bacteria for intrinsic resistance to...
JUN 22, 2017 | 7:00 AM
DATE: June 22, 2017TIME: 7:00AM PDT, 10:00AM ETCell-based assays are a core research tool, offering an informative and cost-effective counterpart or alternative to in vivo and anim...
APR 13, 2017 | 7:30 AM
Microorganisms growing in biofilm phenotype are the cause of chronic infections. Several universal properties of biofilm communities are they are overwhelmingly polymicrobial, difficult...
FEB 22, 2017 | 6:00 AM
Recent advances in DNA sequencing have now made it possible to characterize genomes, transcriptomes and even methylomes which is transforming both basic research and clinical practice. Whole...
JAN 31, 2017 | 9:00 AM
DATE: January 31, 2017TIME: 9:00AM PT, 12:00PM ET Gautam Dantas - While the most acute effects of increasing antibiotic resistance in pathogens are observed in clinical se...
