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The *Neisseria gonorrhoeae* bacterium causes gonorrhea by infecting mucous membranes. Design Cells/iStock Getty Images Plus via Getty Images

October 5, 2022

Gonorrhea became more drug resistant while attention was on COVID-19 – a molecular biologist explains the sexually transmitted superbug

Kenneth Keiler, Penn State

The US currently has only one antibiotic available to treat gonorrhea – and it’s becoming less effective.

Bacteria that are resistant to every available antibiotic in the U.S. already exist. Rodolfo Parulan Jr/Moment via Getty Images

October 29, 2021

Antibiotic resistance is at a crisis point – government support for academia and Big Pharma to find new drugs could help defeat superbugs

André O. Hudson, Rochester Institute of Technology

If no action is taken to address antibiotic resistance, infections from multidrug-resistant bacteria could cause 10 million deaths each year by 2050.

Effective delivery of PNA therapies may offer a way to treat multidrug-resistant infections and other diseases. sorbetto/DigitalVision Vectors via Getty Images

August 9, 2021

New technology can create treatment against drug-resistant bacteria in under a week and adapt to antibiotic resistance

Kristen Eller, University of Colorado Boulder

Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest public health threats in the world. New research, however, may have found a way to keep up with rapidly evolving bacteria.

Multidrug-resistant *Candida auris* can cause serious infections among patients in hospitals and other group medical care settings. Science Photo Library via Getty

June 28, 2021

Fungal infections worldwide are becoming resistant to drugs and more deadly

Rodney E. Rohde, Texas State University

Prevention may be the best way to cope with the worldwide wave of treatment-resistant fungal pathogens.

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