The annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America was held this year from Oct. 16 to 19 in Los Angeles, ...

Imagine falling seriously ill with an infection. Normally, we visit the doctor, are prescribed antibiotics, and after 7-10 days, we're back on our feet.

An international team of researchers has found that an antibiotic commonly prescribed for patients with liver disease, called rifaximin, has led to the global emergence of an almost untreatable form ...

Researchers at Intermountain Health have been awarded a $356,000 grant from Merck, a global science and technology company ...

A new study has found that an antibiotic for liver disease patients could expose them to greater risk of a dangerous superbug.

The study has demonstrated that rifaximin usage is driving resistance to daptomycin, one of the last effective antibiotics ...

HealthDay News — Treating hospitalized patients with bloodstream infections with antibiotics for 7 days is noninferior to ...

Canada and Europe reported catching a respiratory illness in the past year. That figure increased to 74 percent for the U.S. alone. Workplaces were the most commonly cited sources of infection (47 ...

This outbreak was shortly preceded by a significantly high incidence of upper-respiratory infections in the school. Twenty-two Cases of Poliomyelitis, St. Mark's School, May, 1936, by Day of Onset ...

Subgroup analyses were performed according to antibiotic type in clinical response at TOC, infection type in clinical response at TOC, microbial pathogens, and common AEs. We searched CENTRAL, PubMed, ...

More than half of healthy term infants born in the United States are infected with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) during their first year of life, with significant hospitalization and illness ...