Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Jan 7

A #DrugResistant #'Superbug' #Fungus Infected 7,000 Americans in #2025

This super bug is spreading across half the US
The fungus poses a greater risk for vulnerable populations in #nursinghomes and #hospitals
#Candida auris, a type of invasive #yeast that can cause deadly infections in people with weakened immune systems, has infected at least 7,000 people across 27 US states, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/candida-auris-deadly-superbug-fungus-b2893703.html
https://archive.ph/GEFRi

What is the super bug spreading across half of the US?

The fungus poses a greater risk for vulnerable populations in nursing homes and hospitals

The Independent
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Nov 3
Powerful new #antibiotic that can kill #superbugs discovered in #soil #bacteria
Surprise discovery could pave the way for new treatments against #drugresistant #infections.
They discovered an intermediate compound — called premethylenomycin C lactone — whose #antimicrobial activity was 100 times stronger than that of the final product. Tiny doses killed strains of bacteria known to cause hard-to-treat infections.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03595-3
Powerful new antibiotic that can kill superbugs discovered in soil bacteria

Surprise discovery could pave the way for new treatments against drug-resistant infections.

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Oct 23
#A I-designed compounds can kill #drugresistant #bacteria
#MIT team used #artificialintelligence to design novel #antibiotics, two of which showed promise against #MRSA and #gonorrhea
Drugs are structurally distinct from any existing antibiotics, and appear to work by novel mechanisms that disrupt bacterial cell membranes. This makes them less vulnerable to antibiotic resistance, a growing problem: estimated drug-­resistant bacterial infections cause nearly 5M deaths/yr.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/21/1124755/a-i-designed-compounds-can-kill-drug-resistant-bacteria/
A I-designed compounds can kill drug-resistant bacteria

An MIT team used artificial intelligence to design novel antibiotics, two of which showed promise against MRSA and gonorrhea.

MIT Technology Review
sadele2Sep 24, 2025

"The number of infections by drug-resistant, “nightmare bacteria” rose by almost 70 percent between 2019 & 2023 in the US, according to…the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)"

"The increase in US cases may be related to the COVID-19 pandemic" and its "huge surge in antibiotic use"

"Bacteria containing the NDM gene…can be found elsewhere in the world as well, although prevalence varies by region."

#DrugResistant #Bacteria #Antibiotics #NightmareBacteria

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/24/what-are-nightmare-bacteria-and-why-are-infections-rising-in-the-us

What are ‘nightmare bacteria’ and why are infections rising in the US?

Health officials in the US are sounding the alarm over the rise of drug-resistant ‘nightmare bacteria’.

Al Jazeera
Ingvar SantryAug 28, 2025
And now, it seems we have a new potential breakthrough. Researchers at MIT have discovered two promising compounds that, in lab settings and animal trials, eliminate drug-resistant gonorrhea and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
#MIT #Breakthrough #Antibiotics #Gonorrhea #MRSA #DrugResistant
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Mar 27, 2025
New #antibiotic that kills #drugresistant #bacteria discovered in technician’s #garden
It targets bacteria’s protein-making factory, the #ribosome, in a way that other antibiotic drugs don’t. Ribosome is an attractive antibiotic target because bacteria don’t easily develop resistance to #drugs targeting the structure. In studies, #lariocidin slowed the growth of a range of common bacterial #pathogens, including many multidrug-resistant strains.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00945-z
https://archive.ph/NHtJh
New antibiotic that kills drug-resistant bacteria discovered in technician’s garden

The molecule targets bacteria in a way that other drugs don’t.

Punk Metal n BowieJan 11, 2025
Livescience.com: 'Wake-up call' as #hookworm #parasites that infect pets and people grow #drugresistant
https://www.livescience.com/health/viruses-infections-disease/wake-up-call-as-hookworm-parasites-that-infect-pets-and-people-grow-drug-resistant
'Wake-up call' as hookworm parasites that infect pets and people grow drug resistant

Hookworms that cause deadly dog infection and 'creeping eruption' in humans are growing resistant to drugs.

Live Science
Daniel Hoffmann 🌼Nov 15, 2024

More artemisinin resistant malaria in children with severe infection.

Fears for spread of malaria in Africa as study finds resistance to frontline drug
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/nov/14/malaria-study-drug-resistance-children-disease-africa-research-artemisinin

#artemisinin #drugresistant #malaria

Fears for spread of malaria in Africa as study finds resistance to frontline drug

Signs of resistance to artemisinin in tenth of children with severe malaria similar to situation in Asia, say researchers

The Guardian
Knowledge ZoneOct 27, 2024

Just One #Tree : Medium

40 million #Deaths by 2050: toll of #DrugResistant #Infections to rise by 70% : Nature

#PolarBears adapted to the #Arctic just 70,000 years ago : Pop Sci

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It was while she was in a clinic in Cape Town, enduring the complicated, agonizing treatment for extremely #drugresistant #tuberculosis, that Phumeza Tisile began to question why “there weren’t better medications that had less side effects.” https://www.devex.com/news/fighting-drug-resistant-tb-was-costly-here-s-how-that-s-changed-108180