In a world first, researchers are harnessing data science to describe and predict when resistance to antibiotics will emerge during treatment for a bacterial infection.
Could a combination of phage therapy and antibiotics be the key to unlocking the antimicrobial-resistant superbug crisis?
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria causes 700,000 deaths annually, but there are strategies we can use to slow the rapid rise of these superbugs.
Using phage therapy to resensitise a type of bacteria to antibiotics, researchers have found a way to revert antibiotic resistance.
Before COVID-19 began causing sickness, pain and death, a much bigger health threat has been evolving, and desperately needs to be stopped.
A single centralised institute dedicated to infectious diseases and planning for potential future pandemics wouldn’t work in Australia.
A new collection project aims to crack the COVID-19 immunity code, and predict who will be hardest-hit.
... among other things lung damage, pneumonia and multi-organ failure, or sepsis.
A bacteria that thrives in compost and manure is being groomed to take the fight to superbugs.
It's the most common vaginal infection affecting women of reproductive age, but is often considered a non-serious condition – and that needs to change.
Nursing homes are coming under the spotlight in the ongoing antimicrobial resistance war.
Antimicrobial resistance is a global crisis that threatens to take us back to a pre-penicillin era.
Associate Professor John Boyce is part of an international team about to begin a new five-year investigation into the superbug, its antibiotic-resistance mechanisms, and also novel (new) treatments for infection.
Never heard of bacteriophages? They're the most abundant biological entity on the planet, and play a vital role in keeping us alive.
An immunology mystery surrounding the cellular basis for our biological uniqueness has been solved – with groundbreaking implications for treating autoimmune diseases.
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