Many of us associate salmonella infections with food poisoning, but across sub-Saharan Africa there is a strain of the pathogen that often causes a blood infection known as iNTS infection. The abbreviation stands for invasive non-typhoidal Salmonella, with iNTS commonly linked to the Salmonella Typhimurium strain. New research from the…
Resistance to malaria treatment drugs that began with a strain of malaria in Cambodia has quickly spread to other Southeast Asian nations, according to authors of a new study that may have implications for the African continent. The researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, University of Oxford, and Thailand’s Mahidol…
The world is running out of options when it comes to antibiotics and the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance, the World Health Organization said in a new report released Wednesday in Geneva. There just aren’t enough promising new antibiotics in the pipeline that will beat hard-to-treat infections, including drug-resistant tuberculosis…