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While the whole world is obsessed by the COVID-19 pandemic, another equally deadly threat is going unnoticed: antibiotic resistance.
We found a new way to revert antibiotic resistance. It involves using phage therapy to resensitise a type of bacteria to antibiotics.
In some countries there appear to be mismatches between lists of essential medicines and lists of registered medicines.
Estimating the cost of antibiotic resistance to economies and health-care systems is fraught with difficulty, but new research says Australia will be hit harder than we think.
The African continent has the highest burden of gonorrhoea worldwide. In South Africa alone, it's estimated that more than 2 million new cases occur annually.
As antimicrobial resistance increases, the options for treating serious infections dwindle. Doctors need reliable information about which treatments to try out.
Antimicrobial resistance is a public health and economic disaster waiting to happen. If we do not address this threat, by 2050 more people will die from drug-resistant infections than from cancer.
Misuse of common cleaning products or hand sanitisers can lead to antimcrobial resistance in bacteria.
Knowing what genes cause antibiotic resistance -- and where they are in the body -- is critical for preventing further antibiotic resistance.
Antibiotics aren't a one-size-fits-all treatment – the one you had last time might not work on the infection you have at the moment. So how do doctors determine which one is likely to work?
Bioinformatics can be applied to a range of problems, such as understanding the genome sequence of organisms or coming up with new drugs.
Leafcutter ants, Komodo dragons and even your nose are potential sources of new antimicrobial compounds.
Antibiotic resistance is one of the greatest health challenges of the modern day. It's especially prevalent, and must be acted on, in Australia's remote Indigenous communities.
Antibiotic resistance is one of the greatest health challenges we face today. But making a few small changes to the way antibiotics are prescribed could make a big difference in Australia.
The pipeline for new antibiotics is broken. It is time to think outside the box.
A new report estimates that by 2050, 40 per cent of all infections will be resistant to antimicrobial treatment. This will directly cause 13,700 previously preventable deaths.
Healthcare workers in sub-Saharan Africa lack access to laboratory diagnostics and often have to guess which antibiotics to use for presumed infections.
Washing hands and coughing into your elbow can help limit the spread of infectious diseases on planes and around the globe. So why don't passengers read about this in their inflight magazines?
Don't let that fly land in your hospital room. It could be carrying dangerous strains of bacteria.
Top contributors
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Prof. Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Australian National University
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Professor of Public Health, Bond University
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IMB Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Professor at ANU Medical School; Senior Staff Specialist Infectious Diseases; General Physician, Australian National University
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Associate Professor in Microbiology, University of Technology Sydney
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Researcher, Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer in School of Biological Sciences, Microbiology, Monash University
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Professor of Immunology, University of Sydney
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Lyn Gilbert is a Friend of The Conversation.
Clinical Professor in Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, Centre for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, University of Sydney
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Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer Veterinary Microbiology, University of Adelaide
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Adjunct Professor, Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University
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Professor in Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, Monash University
