Scientists have been able to track how a multi-drug resistant organism is able to evolve and spread widely among cystic fibrosis patients – showing...
Diphtheria – a relatively easily-preventable infection – is evolving to become resistant to a number of classes of antibiotics and in future could...
Dolutegravir, the current first-line treatment for HIV, may not be as effective as hoped in sub-Saharan Africa, suggests new research published on...
Scientists have used genome sequencing to reveal the extent to which a drug-resistant gastrointestinal bacterium can spread within a hospital...
Antiretroviral therapy (ART) failure and drug resistance are extremely common in patients living with HIV who are admitted to hospital in Malawi...
A team of researchers at the University of Cambridge has identified a protein complex that might explain why some cancer patients treated with the...
Patients in intensive care units are at significant risk of potentially life-threatening secondary infections, including from antibiotic-resistant...
An ingredient commonly found in toothpaste could be employed as an anti-malarial drug against strains of malaria parasite that have grown resistant...
A multi-drug resistant infection that can cause life-threatening illness in people with cystic fibrosis (CF) and can spread from patient to patient...
The University of Cambridge has been awarded £2 million from the UK Medical Research Council and the Government of India’s Department for...
Bacteria 'plan ahead' by tightening their belts to help them survive looming lean periods, researchers at Cambridge have discovered.
The latest research into the intricate processes that let substances into and out of cells will help to lay the foundations for the next generation...