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The global threat of antimicrobial resistant bacteria and other superbugs is worsening as many patients admitted to hospital with covid-19 receive antibiotics to keep secondary bacterial infections in check. “Since…

At this moment in time, all attention has been turned to the novel coronavirus that is circling the globe and upending life as we know it. Not only is the…

Published in Nature Microbiology: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-020-0739-4 Action is needed to prevent COVID-19 from casting a long shadow over antimicrobial resistance. A peek under the hood of studies reporting on patients hospitalized…

WHO Report: Geneva—A record number of countries are now monitoring and reporting on antibiotic resistance - marking a major step forward in the global fight against drug resistance. But the…

The use of antibiotics as disease treatments or growth promoters in livestock is prohibited in many countries worldwide in efforts to solve problems caused by antibiotic resistance. Therefore, an alternative…

Our pre-print article on "Dissemination of Carbapenem-resistance and Plasmids-encoding Carbapenemases in Gram-negative Bacteria Isolated from India" has been published. Authored by: Prasanth Manohar, Bruno S Lopes and Ramesh Nachimuthu Main…

As drug-resistant superbugs spread, researchers are turning to microbes that kill bacteria. This year the world awakened to the fact that the most powerful and sophisticated species on earth is…

Phage therapy (PT) is also called bacteriophage therapy. It uses viruses to treat bacterial infections. Bacterial viruses are called phages or bacteriophages. They only attack bacteria; phages are harmless to…

A health crisis is rapidly unfolding worldwide. It causes suffering and death, costs billions and threatens to overwhelm health-care systems, patients and their families. No, it's not the coronavirus pandemic.…

Phage therapy, which exploits the ability of certain viruses to infect and replicate within bacteria, shows promise for treating antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections. But the design of such therapies depends on…