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UK-India experts’ drive to stop antibiotic waste creating more ‘superbugs’ expresspharma
August 10, 2020
The project is part of £8 million package of UK-India government-backed research which also comprises programmes to tackle AMR.
PolyU develops new class of antibiotic candidates against superbugs biospectrumasia
September 25, 2019
The novel small molecules, based on new target, new chemical structure and new antimicrobial mechanism, are different from those of existing antibiotics.
Scientists Develop an Antibiotic Alternative Against 'Superbugs' drugs
May 30, 2019
Scientists Develop an Antibiotic Alternative Against 'Superbugs'.
UK researchers develop compound to kill superbugs pharmaceutical-technology
May 30, 2019
Research teams from the University of Sheffield and Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in the UK have developed a compound that could kill antibiotic-resistant superbugs.
21st Annual Superbugs & Superdrugs Conference worldpharmanews
November 10, 2018
As the global threat of antimicrobial resistance continues to grow, the advances of modern medicines are at risk of being lost. Failure to act quickly means the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria could lead to increased mortality from normally minor
ECDC report shows drug-resistant superbugs lead to 33,000 deaths pharmaceutical-technology
November 07, 2018
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has found in an analysis that multi-drug resistant superbugs result in 33,000 deaths every year across Europe.
Bacteriophages, natural drugs to combat superbugs biospectrumasia
April 25, 2017
Viruses that specifically kill bacteria, called bacteriophages, might one day help solve the growing problem of bacterial infections that are resistant to antibiotic treatment.