Data for the most recent year is not available for all countries. Quinolones and cephalosporins are considered second-line antibiotics in most prescribing guidelines. Their use should be restricted to ...

The unregulated use of antimicrobials in livestock and fish farming has assumed a public health concern as farmers across ...

Pope Francis has been in hospital for more than a week with what some media reports are now calling "double pneumonia." ...

This article is also available as a pdf version. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) to existing medicines creates one of the biggest dangers for global health. According to the Antimicrobial ...

2014, 2016). The antibiotics apply its effect by different mechanisms, initially by inhibiting the synthesis of the bacterial wall (penicillins, glycopeptides, carbapenems, and cephalosporins), ...

Most free-living bacteria can attach to surfaces and aggregate to grow into multicellular communities encased in extracellular polymeric substances called biofilms. Biofilms are recalcitrant to ...

But even if you’re used to picking up a prescription from your local pharmacy and hoping it fights off your illness sooner rather than later, there are still specific questions you should ask your ...

Antimicrobial resistance and serotypes in Streptococcus pneumoniae have been evolving with the widespread use of antibiotics and the introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCV ...

Yellow toenails should never be ignored. They're most often caused by a fungal infection that's contagious and hard to eliminate without proper treatment. You can also develop yellow toenails as a ...