A seven-year Indian study reveals alarmingly high rates of bloodstream infections from central lines, especially in newborns, with a 40% mo...

Through this platform, resistance in bacterial samples can be tested within two hours compared to 24-27 hours through other methods. This c...

Wockhardt's shares surged 8.6% after its antibiotic Zaynich successfully treated a US cancer patient, enabling a liver transplant and chemo...

A study by ICMR revealed that Klebsiella pneumoniae and Acinetobacter baumannii showed resistance to imipenem among ICU patients with blood...

A recent study in Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia warned that rising antimicrobial resistance (AMR) threatens global health goals b...

ICMR has found the abuse of antimicrobials (antibiotics, antivirals or antifungals) to be the reason for this, which is says has led to wid...

"A clinical diagnosis most often helps us predict causative pathogens fitting into a clinical syndrome which would tailor the correct antib...

This is the fifth detailed report on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) trends and patterns from the country published by the ICMR. This year's...

The study, led by O R Vinodh Kumar, has been peer reviewed and accepted for publication in the Journal of Applied Microbiology.

The infection was caused by carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), a multidrug-resistant organism associated with high mortality.

The report confirms the findings of a Princeton University study in 2014 which said Indians consume the highest number of antibiotics in th...

The researchers studied a family of bacteria called Enterobacteriaceae, which includes E coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Enterobacter.

The product is designed for mixed multi-drug infections for pediatric, geriatric and adult immuno-compromised patients.

The Centre for Disease Control (CDC), USA, believes that a single infectious organism, MRSA, kills more people in the US than AIDS.

Over-the-counter sale of around 92 antibiotic and anti-tuberculosis drugs will be clamped down in India soon.

Some 77 cases of a multi-drug resistant "superbug" from India first reported in Britain in August have now been detected in 13 European cou...

Pharmaceutical firm Venus Remedies on Monday said it has filed a patent application for its combination drug for the treatment of multi-bac...