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Mum Rhiannon Forster discovered the unusual marks all over two-year-old son Wyatt's neck arms and legs just days after his GP prescribed antibiotics for an ear infection.

In a world-first, a research team in Western Australia develops a faster method of detecting bacterial infections, in a move that should also combat antibiotic resistance.

Forget COVID-19, monkeypox and other viruses for the moment and consider another threat troubling infectious disease specialists: common urinary tract infections, or UTIs, that lead to emergency room visits and even hospitalizations because of the failure of oral antibiotics.

Common urinary tract infections are leading to emergency room visits because of the failure of oral antibiotics

Enterococci bacteria can cause various problems

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U.S. health officials say the toll of drug-resistant “superbug” infections worsened during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic

Some 1.27 million people died in 2019 directly as a result of infection because the bacteria causing the infection were resistant to the drugs designed to kill them, according to a recent study in The Lancet; overall, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is estimated to have contributed directly or indirectly to the…

Tests found more than 10% of sampled products resistant to antibiotic used to treat serious illnesses in humans

‘Use of broad-spectrum ones rampant in India’

The two-year-old child is in intensive care at a Queensland hospital, where they've been given diphtheria antitoxin, antibiotics and respiratory support.