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    Source: PEW Trusts

    Researcher Looks to Plants in Search for New Antibiotics

    January 11, 2021

    Superbug survivor discusses effort to combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria—and why she’s making her data public.

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    Source: Becker's Hospital Review

    4 ways scientists are fighting superbugs

    August 28, 2019

    Multidrug resistant infections are on the rise and could kill up to 10 million people a year by 2050, the UN warned in an April 2019 report. In response, researchers are working to develop new treatments for superbugs and improve on existing treatments.

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    Source: Association of American Medical Colleges

    Can we kill superbugs before they kill us?

    August 27, 2019

    More than 10 million people a year could die from antibiotic-resistant bacteria, warns a United Nations report. Yet scientists hope that recent advances - from reviving ancient cures to enlisting bacteria-slaying viruses - could prevent that dire prediction.

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    To Find The Next Antibiotic, Scientists Give Old Drugs A New Purpose

    August 12, 2019

    With antibiotic-resistant bacteria on the rise, scientists are urgently trying to find drugs that will work against persistent infections. But coming up with new ones does not have to be the only strategy.

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    Source: Becker's Hospital Review

    How scientists are repurposing old drugs to combat antibiotic resistance

    August 12, 2019

    Scientists may be able to repurpose older drugs, like bithionol, to kill drug-resistant bacteria, suggest the findings of a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

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    Source: AJC

    What made a young man at UGA decide to focus on his future instead of his illness

    July 3, 2019

    At 45, Georgia author with cystic fibrosis lives life fully as he fights odds

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    A Medieval Potion Proves Its Worth as an Effective Bacteria Killer

    July 31, 2020

    A 1,000-year-old recipe to treat eye infections could lead to an unorthodox way of combating antibiotic resistance.

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    Source: Infectious Disease Special Edition

    Recognizing ‘Heteroresistance’ In Bacterial Infections

    July 15, 2020

    When samples of bacterial infections are sent to pathology labs for testing, the results are usually reported in one of two ways: The bacterium is susceptible to treatment with major antibiotics or it’s resistant. But there’s a third type of infection that infectious disease clinicians are increasingly seeing as worthy of recognition—heteroresistant.

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    Source: Scientific American

    Bacteria “Tolerant” of One Antibiotic Are More Likely to Develop Resistance

    January 9, 2020

    Even combination therapies do not prevent such pathogens from becoming resistant

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    Source: The Atlantic

    Should Human Feces Be Regulated Like a Drug?

    June 24, 2019

    A fecal-transplant patient has unexpectedly died just as the FDA is deciding the future of the unconventional procedure.

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    Source: Popular Science

    What to know about fecal transplants in the wake of the first death

    June 18, 2019

    Transplanting feces might sound like a recipe for bacterial infections, but until last week the data suggested it was actually quite safe.

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    Casey, Isakson Introduce Legislation to Fight Drug-Resistant Infections

    June 5, 2019

    U.S. Senators Bob Casey (D-PA) and Johnny Isakson (R-GA) introduced legislation this week to help advance research and new treatments for drug-resistant infections.

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