The Latest Breaking News from Antibiotics

Chloe Franklin developed a cough and was referred straight to University Hospital Llandough for further tests before being given a course of antibiotics

There was a 15% rise in drug-resistant infections in hospitalized patients from 2019 to 2020.

An inquest into the death of seven-year-old Aishwarya Aswath at Perth Children's Hospital hears her infection was so advanced that her odds of survival would have been low even if staff had acted sooner.

The treatment targets infections that are hard to treat with traditional antibiotics

Revolutionary treatment for C diff infections that transfers gut bacteria from healthy faeces given the green light by Nice

C.diff infections can be tricky to treat with traditional antibiotics.

While much of our attention during the past few years has been focused on COVID, a more insidious and more dangerous pandemic has been spreading unabated. This pandemic concerns antimicrobial resistance, which is when bacteria evade the antibiotics we use to treat them. You’ve probably heard these bacteria called “superbugs”…

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Replacing swallowed medicines with inhaled versions means the lowest possible effective dose can be administered and helps stop bugs becoming resistant to drugs, writes Dr Miriam Stoppard