Caring for a pet brings immense joy, but it also comes with its share of challenges, especially when it comes to their health ...

This is a rare disease that does cause red skin on the belly and, in some cases, has also presented with swollen lymph nodes.

Antibiotics are often thought of as an easy cure to bacterial infections, but they could be fueling an urgent public health ...

Antibiotics can disrupt gut microbiota, leading to potential recurrences of Clostridioides difficile infections (CDI). New therapies like fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) and monoclonal ...

Dr. Temitope Ilori, Director General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), has revealed that 1.6 million out of the 2 million people living with HIV in Nigeria are currently on ...

Simple, uncomplicated SSSIs include erysipelas, cellulitis, furuncles, superficial abscesses and wound infections ... causative organisms and guiding treatment decisions. Early empirical ...

is fuelling antibiotic resistance, a growing concern. If unchecked, we may face a future where routine infections become untreatable," he added. Dr Vishal V Jali, consultant intensivist ...

1814 patients were assigned to 7 days of antibiotic treatment, and 1794 to 14 days. At enrollment, 55.0% of patients were in the ICU and 45.0% were on hospital wards. Infections were acquired in ...

First, in zebrafish embryos, D22 treatment cleared A. baumannii infection as effectively as ciprofloxacin, a broad-spectrum antibiotic used for complicated infections. Then the team conducted a ...

An international clinical trial led by researchers at Sunnybrook has found that treating hospitalized patients with bloodstream infection with antibiotics for seven days is non-inferior to 14-day ...

India, which bears 23% of the world’s community pneumonia burden, faces challenges with existing treatments, including widespread resistance to drugs like azithromycin. The new antibiotic, developed ...

Notably, river microbes had the ability to degrade microplastics into smaller carbon compounds, and microbes found near wastewater treatment plants expressed high levels of antibiotic resistance ...