Life at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Multidrug antibiotic resistance has become one of the most significant clinical problems. Despite billions of dollars invested in research and stewardship programs to regulate antibiotic… Read More »Commensal Bacteria and Evolution
Long before COVID-19, a serious pandemic had been lurking inside hospitals and health care centers worldwide multidrug-resistant (MDR) microbial infections, which are caused by bacterial… Read More »A Viral Solution to Antibiotics Weakness
“...23,000 deaths a year.” “...over 2 million infections.” These headlines would be alarming but expected if they were descriptions of the latest Ebola outbreak. But… Read More »Antimicrobial Stewardship: Ensuring a Future for Human Health Care
In September 2016, a Nevada woman died of a bacterial infection. The woman, in her 70s, had been hospitalized previously in India due to a… Read More »Bugs Resistant to Drugs: What Can We Do?