Australia has some of the world’s most conservative restrictions on using antimicrobial drugs in livestock. Possibly as a consequence, we have some of the lowest rates in the world of antibiotic resistance…
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Bacteria resistant to antibiotics are reaching epidemic proportions around the world, particularly in developing countries. In Australia, we’re also seeing increasing numbers of serious infections which…
You’ve got a high fever, severe cough and find it hard to breathe – all symptoms of severe pneumonia. Before antibiotics, you’d likely be dead within ten days. In fact, before we had these amazing drugs…
A new anti-microbial catheter could remain infection free for up to twelve weeks. Scientists developed a catheter designed…
Two views in today’s Medical Journal of Australia deal with attitudes to risk and economics, but with the added gravitas of a life-or-death outcome added to the consideration. The articles discuss the…
A common hospital bacterium can mutate into a superbug that causes potentially life-threatening diarrhoea, a Monash University-led…
We sometimes forget that antibiotics kill beneficial microorganisms as well as those that threaten our health. In fact, the damage they wreak on “good” germs could be responsible for the growth of certain…
Research has found residential washing machines may not always use hot enough water to eliminate dangerous bacteria like…
We know, because it’s big news, that drug-resistant infections are on the rise globally. But could Australian mammals hold the key to a fightback? Our current crop of antibiotics is in danger of becoming…
Recent outbreaks of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (e-coli) in Germany and reports about the emergence of “new superbug” Salmonella Kentucky have re-focused public attention on food-borne diseases…
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Prof. Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Biocchemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University
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Professor, The University of Queensland
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Senior Research Fellow, School of Medicine, The University of Western Australia
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Consultant Microbiologist, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland and Professor and Head of Department, Clinical Microbiology, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
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Dean of the College of Science, Professor of Biochemistry, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Researcher, Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery, Griffith University
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Professor at ANU Medical School; Senior Staff Specialist Infectious Diseases; General Physician, Australian National University
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Professor of Public Health, Bond University
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Associate Professor in Microbiology, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University
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Lecturer in the History of Medicine, University College Dublin
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Professor of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer in School of Biological Sciences, Microbiology, Monash University
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Assistant Professor of Public Health, Bond University
