Stanford University researchers report that ciprofloxacin use drives persistent antibiotic resistance in human gut bacteria, ...

If you or your child caught a bacterial infection, you’d expect antibiotics to work. That’s been the case for around a ...

A new study on Lyme disease sheds light on the persistence of symptoms; another new study points to an antibiotic that may be ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new antibiotic, PAQFLOR, for use with finfish. PAQFLOR, a ...

Frequent use of antibiotics in infants and toddlers may increase their risk for asthma and allergies as they age, a new study ...

Lyme disease, a disease transmitted when deer ticks feed on infected animals like deer and rodents, and then bite humans, impacts nearly half a million individuals in the U.S. annually.

A Northwestern University study reveals that piperacillin, a common antibiotic, effectively treats Lyme disease in mice at a ...

Piperacillin, an antibiotic in the same class as penicillin, effectively cured mice of Lyme disease at 100-times less than the effective dose of doxycycline, the current gold standard treatment. At ...

Antibiotic resistance is a serious threat to public health. When antibiotics don't work, we risk not being able to treat many types of infections and people who would previously have been cured, can ...

In the realm of Lyme disease research, one antibiotic emerged as being highly effective for treatment of acute infection, and ...

In the future, ten million people may die every year from infections caused by bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics. Researchers at the ...

A genomic study of gut microbes during antibiotic use finds selective sweeps in a DNA gyrase gene that drive resistance.