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Drug resistance

June 2024

  • A gloved hand is pushing a black cartridge into a white box.

    Rapid UTI test that cuts detection time to 45 minutes awarded Longitude prize

    The £8m award goes to system that could herald ‘sea change’ in antibiotic use by rapidly identifying correct treatment for urinary tract infections

May 2024

  • An older white woman wearing glasses and a purple jacket stands by a window that reflects her image

    Rise of drug-resistant superbugs could make Covid pandemic look ‘minor’, expert warns

  • Illustration of an antibiotic-resistant bacteria (white) on the colon epithelium. The antibiotic-resistant bacteria will go on to transfer its antibiotic resistance genes horizontally to the bacteria surrounding it.

    What is antimicrobial resistance and how big a problem is it?

November 2023

  • A person's hand holding white pills

    Antibiotic-resistant infections rise in England but still below pre-Covid levels

    Number of antibiotic prescriptions also up and officials warn against giving leftovers to friends and family

March 2023

  • Posed by model Man and his grey cat

    Dogs and cats could be passing on drug-resistant bugs to owners, study finds

    Swabs collected from hospitalised people found microbes shared with pets at home showing same antibiotic resistance
  • A photomicrograph showing a number of young sporangia of a mucor fungus, a common indoor mould.

    Science Weekly
    The Last of Us: could the next pandemic be fungal?

    Madeleine Finlay speaks to Guardian science correspondent Linda Geddes about the possibility of a fungal pandemic like the one depicted in apocalyptic thriller The Last of Us. They discuss the strange world of fungi, the risks of infections and treatment resistance, and what we can do to protect ourselves from future fungal threats
  • Martha Clokie

    Bacteria-killing viruses could combat antibiotic resistance, says UK scientist

    Prof Martha Clokie says phages could become routine for some conditions

February 2023

  • MRSA bacteria strain is seen in a petri dish in a microbiological laboratory in Berlin

    ‘Looming global health crisis’: urgent action needed to prevent spread of drug-resistant superbugs, CSIRO says

    National science agency warns of a ‘post-antibiotic world’ in 2050, marked by declines in lifespan, quality of life and livestock production

January 2023

  • The superbug Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which can cause lung infections in people on ventilators.

    GM bacteria could combat antibiotic resistance, study suggests

    Re-engineered bacteria able to target drug-resistant infections in mice, research finds

November 2022

  • Cows in a pasture

    Animals farmed
    McDonald’s and Walmart beef suppliers criticised for ‘reckless’ antibiotics use

    Exclusive: Most important antibiotics for human health still used in supply chains of major US food companies, risking spread of superbugs

August 2022

  • TB survivor and activist Meera Yadav in Mumbai

    ‘Patients are falling through the cracks’: drug costs hinder India’s response to TB

    The country has the world’s largest number of multi-drug-resistant cases – but doctors and activists warn patients are going undiagnosed and untreated

June 2022

  • Heap of medicine pills

    Drugmakers urged to give poorer nations access to more antibiotics

    Antifungals also needed, says study, as drug resistance has increased faster than expected, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa

November 2021

  • A hospital in Malawi dispenses antiretroviral treatment.

    Warning on tackling HIV as WHO finds rise in resistance to antiretroviral drugs

  • Woman with TB symptoms, at a clinic in Kampala, Uganda

    Poorer nations still lack access to world’s key antibiotics

December 2020

  • Farmed pigs

    Farm animals antibiotics data raises post-Brexit trade fears

    Use of antibiotics on farms in US and Canada about five times the UK level, says report

September 2020

  • A false-coloured micrograph of phage therapy in action against alcoholic liver disease.

    Phages: the tiny viruses that could help beat superbugs

    Bacteriophages were superseded by modern antibiotics, but scientists believe they could be key to conquering antimicrobial resistance

January 2020

  • Portable urine-collecting toilets.

    Yes wee can: study gives green light to use urine as crop fertiliser

  • MRSA bacteria under a microscope

    Cannabis compound could be weapon in fight against superbugs

November 2019

  • Pigs on a farm

    Brexit could weaken rules on antibiotics in farming, activists warn

    Campaigners say next government must clamp down to avoid risks to human health

October 2019

  • A sample that tested positive for tuberculosis is seen under a microscope

    Antibiotic price drop could stop millions from developing tuberculosis

    New agreement secures 66% reduction in cost of rifapentine, which prevents ‘latent’ TB from becoming active
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