The development of new antibiotics to treat superbugs and other bacterial infections is a global priority, with the rate of infections that cannot be treated with current antibiotics rising and ... WGN-TV: Why antibiotics don’t work for some bacterial infections β€” and more CIDRAP: Use of newer antibiotics for challenging infections is rising, but no improvement seen in death rates The study, published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, found that, among patients hospitalized with a difficult-to-treat (DTR) gram-negative bacterial infections, initial treatment with one of six ... Use of newer antibiotics for challenging infections is rising, but no improvement seen in death rates Researchers have developed a new antibiotic that reduced or eliminated drug-resistant bacterial infections in mouse models of acute pneumonia and sepsis while sparing healthy microbes in the mouse gut ...

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Georgetown University Medical Center scientists found using antibiotics did not impact the severity or duration of coughs. Even when a bacterial infection is to blame for the cough, the typical ... A CDC alert warns that drug-resistant Shigella infections have increased substantially in the U.S., with cases spreading domestically since 2011.