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4 January 2016 | By Victoria White
University of Illinois researchers have found that a number of existing drugs approved for the treatment of various conditions, such as cancer or infertility, show promise as antibiotic agents...
7 December 2015 | By Victoria White
Breakpoints of new agents are absolutely vital in standardising a global definition of resistance and the point at which increased dosages are needed...
18 November 2015 | By Victoria White
Survey results released by the ECDC show that the situation continues to worsen with regard to the spread of CPE in the EU, with 3 countries reporting an endemic situation...
13 November 2015 | By Victoria White
Ahead of the European Antibiotic Awareness Day, ESCMID has highlighted two of its more recent projects in the fight against antimicrobial resistance...
12 November 2015 | By Victoria White
The data reveals antibiotic prescribing hotspots and interesting correlations against areas of deprivation. It also shows seasonal variation in antibiotic prescribing...
3 November 2015 | By Coulter Partners
Coulter Partners was delighted to partner with German diagnostics company Curetis AG on two strategic supervisory board appointments and congratulates them on their recent IPO launch...
18 August 2015 | By Victoria White
NICE, the UK health watchdog, has published guidance to help doctors, nurses and pharmacists promote and monitor the sensible use of antibiotics...
31 July 2015 | By Victoria White
People in the UK have little awareness of what ‘antibiotic resistance’ means, according to new research commissioned by the Wellcome Trust...
21 July 2015 | By Victoria White
The first group of healthy volunteers have been dosed in a Phase I clinical trial assessing the safety and tolerability of an oral formulation of MGB-BP-3...
20 July 2015 | By Victoria White
The US FDA has designated Motif Bio's iclaprim as a Qualified Infectious Diseases Product (QIDP) for hospital acquired bacterial pneumonia (HABP)...
15 July 2015 | By Victoria White
Scientists have discovered a new subtype of emm89 streptococcus that has contributed to a rise in disease cases in the UK over the last 17 years...
2 July 2015 | By Victoria White
The UK takes the lead position when it comes to patent filings for antimicrobial point-of-care diagnostics in Europe...
A study by NYU Langone Medical Centre researchers adds to growing evidence that multiple courses of commonly used antibiotics may have a significant impact on children's development.
24 June 2015 | By Victoria White
Researchers have pinpointed a critical differentiator that separates the effects of bactericidal and bacteriostatic antibiotics: cellular respiration...
18 June 2015 | By Victoria White
A new study shows that the antibiotic azithromycin, often prescribed to cure common infections, kills many multidrug-resistant bacteria very effectively...
