There are many forms of Escherichia coli. While lots are harmless members of the gut microbiome, others can cause serious infections. Some E. coli infections are challenging to eliminate because they ...

A team of biologists from University of California, Los Angeles found two combinations of antibiotics that were extremely successful in reducing growth of E. coli bacteria, according to UCLA. The team ...

It took E. coli just 11 days to develop resistance to high doses of antibiotics, and researchers from Boston-based Harvard Medical School and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology caught the whole ...

Treatment with phages or antibiotics individually can lead to resistance evolution. An evolutionarily informed phage-antibiotic combination however, can reduce resistance evolution. Created with ...

A recent study has found gut bacteria resistant to common antibiotics (ampicillin and ceftriaxone) in a sizable percentage of ...

Caffeine may help some bacteria keep antibiotics out of their cells, potentially reducing the therapeutic effects of the drugs, a new laboratory study hints. However, experts caution that it's not yet ...

Olaug Elisabeth Torheim Bergum and her colleague Amanda Holstad Singleton, both PhD candidates at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) have studied how E. coli bacteria react when ...

Diarrheagenic E. coli (DEC) is a major global cause of diarrheal diseases, with certain strains showing alarming levels of antibiotic resistance. The rise of these resistant strains has rendered many ...