1 Department of Fibre and Polymer Technology, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden 2 Department of Materials, ...

Antimicrobial resistance is the ability of microorganisms such as bacteria, fungi or protozoans to grow despite exposure to antimicrobial substances designed to inhibit their growth. Microbes can ...

Imagine that the next time you catch a stomach bug and antibiotics fail to work, you knock back a vial of clear liquid. The solution teems with bacteriophages, viruses resembling tiny rocket ships.

Sulfa drugs are synthetic (man-made) medications made from sulfanilamide that contain antibacterial properties. Sulfa drugs were the first class of antibiotics ever discovered. However, many other ...

This new rule concerns the few antibiotics that remained available over the counter in the form of injectables, intramammary tubes and boluses. Prescription-only items will include injectable tylosin, ...

Antibiotics are a major tool in treating illnesses caused by bacteria, but like any tool, they should be used appropriately. If they are not, the tool may not work when we really need it. The Centers ...

Starting in 2018, the company will buy about 15 per cent of its beef from producers that have each pledged to reduce by 20 per cent their use of tylosin, the one medically important antibiotic they ...

Tylosin and tetracyclines (e.g., chlortetracycline, oxytetracycline) are the most common antibiotics with labels lacking a defined duration. (See Figure 1.) Notably, for many of these problematic ...