This lovely creature is Bathynomus vaderi, an isopod newly named after Darth Vader for obvious reasons. A crustacean in the ...

Strathdee saw firsthand the effects that antimicrobial resistance can have on health when her husband nearly died from a ...

Here are 10 of our most important and interesting superbug stories from 2024. New strains of a superbug called hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (hvKp) have been detected in 16 countries ...

Scientists have used artificial intelligence (AI) to discover a new antibiotic that can kill a deadly species of superbug. The AI helped narrow down thousands of potential chemicals to a handful ...

Here is everything you need to know about this new superbug. Candida auris (C. auris) is a yeast, a type of fungus, which can cause infections in humans. It is related to the very common Candida ...

The largest epidemiological study to date on multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in Saudi hospitals highlights the need ...

The parents of a young amateur footballer told of their despair last night after he was killed by a hospital superbug. Troy Eames, 23, only went into hospital for treatment on an ingrowing toenail.

A researcher at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has discovered a superbug that may cause pneumonia to become fatal. Pneumonia is usually a treatable respiratory infection. But an ...

Oxford team reports hopeful results in trials as military experts say UK should stock supplies of Black Death inoculation ...

Scientists have discovered how the hospital superbug C.diff rapidly evolves resistance to the frontline drug used for treatment in the UK. Clostridioides difficile (C. diff), a type of bacteria which ...

An outbreak has been declared in a medical unit at the Sault Area Hospital due to a superbug. The precautions have been in ...