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.
Monash University is No.1 in the world for pharmacy and pharmacology, but what does that mean, and how are the university rankings calculated?
Professor Dena Lyras’ continuing mission lies in trying to understand the formidable enemy of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, particularly those in the human gut.
Since COVID-19's emergence, soaps and sanitisers are ubiquitous, but researchers are warning that the antibacterial additives they contain are dangerous to our health.
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 surprising number of people are catching pneumonia or urinary tract infections in hospital, a new Australian study shows for the first time.
Antibiotic resistance is a global challenge in the battle between mankind and microbes. Watch 'Beating the Superbugs' for a truly multidisciplinary 360 degree view of the issue.
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.
Antibiotic resistance is a global challenge in the battle between mankind and microbes. Watch this episode
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.
Design and medicine have joined forces to tackle a vital hygiene issue that plays a part in tens of thousands of deaths each year.
Despite dire warnings of a looming antibiotic resistance crisis, the issue has failed to capture the public imagination.
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