By Deborah Balthazar At the University of Pittsburgh, testing to pick the best phage to fight infection-causing bacteria. UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH Lynn Cole was in a never-ending cycle of getting recurrent blood infections. And no antibiotic drugs managed to kill off her zombie-like bacteria.“It just got so frustrating over the years because we couldn’t find the...
Researchers at Oregon State University have made a key advance in the fight against drug resistance, crafting a compound that genetically neutralizes a widespread bacterial pathogen’s ability to thwart antibiotics. The findings are important because antibiotic resistance is a growing global threat, with the percentage of isolates with multidrug resistance on the rise for many...
