Antibiotic resistance

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Health & Medicine

A new way to manage antibiotic allergies in Australia

Two million Australians self-report an allergy to penicillin – but most actually aren’t allergic – and this can lead to serious public health consequences

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Health & Medicine

The tech boosting world-class antimicrobial research

As we mark Antimicrobial Awareness week, one Australian collaboration has been pioneering software solutions and research into antimicrobial stewardship for nearly two decades

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Health & Medicine

Starving the bacterium that causes pneumonia

By targeting an essential nutrition pathway, researchers hope to develop drug targets against the bacterium that causes pneumonia

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Health & Medicine

Can thousands of oranges worth of vitamin C cure sepsis?

Sepsis, when our immune response to infection attacks tissues and organs, is a major killer, but recent research suggests a megadose of vitamin C can reverse the damage

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Health & Medicine

A new weapon in the war against superbugs

New research is finding ways to beat dangerous superbugs with ‘resistance resistant’ antibiotics, and it could help in our fight against COVID-19 complications

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Sciences & Technology

How do we get antibiotic resistance genes in a salad?

Animal manure is a known source of antibiotic resistance genes, and now new research shows how these genes travel from the soil to a salad

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