A study of patients at various hospitals in Atlanta has revealed a subpopulation of drug-resistant bacteria that utilize “heteroresistance” to hide among otherwise treatable types of bugs, leading to ...

Many insects rely on heritable bacterial endosymbionts for essential nutrients that they cannot get through their diet. A new study, published in Nature Communications, indicates that the genomes of ...

Bacteria extracted from 5,000-year-old ice in the Scărișoara Ice Cave in Romania could help us fight superbugs, new research ...

SCIENTISTS have discovered an ancient bacterial strain resistant to multiple types of antibiotics – which could worsen the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Infection rates from drug-resistant “nightmare bacteria” have spiked across the United States and in California at the same time a ...

Bacteria from cows has shown "promising" results in treating hospital superbugs. The farmyard favorites carry a microbe that could become an "effective weapon" against antibiotic resistant MRSA ...