Antimicrobial resistance terms don’t convey harms of bacteria, surveys find
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Kristen Fischer
Nov 01, 2023
The terms “antimicrobial resistance” and “AMR” aren’t working so well to convey how dangerous antibiotic-resistant infections are, a new study finds. Additionally, a more...
NIH probes multidrug-resistant bacteria in community settings
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Kristen Fischer
Sep 08, 2023
Researchers are seeing people in community health settings with extremely or unusually virulent strains of the bacteria Klebsiella pneumoniae. As a result, a National Institutes of Health research group...
CDC: C. auris spreading at ‘alarming’ rate in U.S. healthcare facilities
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Alicia Lasek
Mar 22, 2023
Drug-resistant Candida auris, a known threat to nursing homes, has spread rapidly, and a growing number of cases are resistant to first-line treatment, federal researchers report.