antibiotic resistance

  1. Michael Harrop

    Other Artificial sweetener saccharin not only kills drug-resistant bacteria but also makes existing antibiotics more effective (Apr 2025) Saccharin disrupts bacterial cell envelope stability and interferes with DNA replication dynamics

    https://phys.org/news/2025-04-artificial-sweetener-power-antibiotic-resistance.html https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.1038/s44321-025-00219-1
  2. Michael Harrop

    Other Bacterial slime on microplastics help breed antibiotic-resistant superbugs (Mar 2025) Effects of microplastic concentration, composition, and size on Escherichia coli biofilm-associated antimicrobial resistance

    https://www.wlfi.com/news/bacterial-slime-on-microplastics-help-breed-antibiotic-resistant-superbugs-study-says/article_24b9297b-5fb2-568e-8d28-c1cae12fd964.html https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/aem.02282-24
  3. Michael Harrop

    Phages Newly discovered virus kills "sleeping" bacteria in superbug breakthrough (Jan 2024) Phage Paride can kill dormant, antibiotic-tolerant cells of Pseudomonas aeruginosa by direct lytic replication

    https://newatlas.com/medical/virus-phage-kills-sleeping-bacteria-superbugs/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-44157-3
  4. Michael Harrop

    Phages Superbug crisis threatens to kill 10 million per year by 2050. Scientists may have a solution (Jan 2024)

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/21/health/antibiotic-resistant-germs-phages-wellness/index.html It's absolutely nuts how many articles there are like this about antibiotic resistance and nearly zero about collateral damage.
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