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Antimicrobial resistance is one of the biggest global threats to health, food security and development. This month, The Conversation’s experts explore how we got here and the potential solutions.

New research finds that the most commonly prescribed antibiotics in Southeast Asia are only 50% effective at treating sepsis and meningitis in newborns. It's a cause for global concern.

A study found that many common antibiotics were less than 50% effective at treating serious bacterial infections in children and newborn babies in the Asia-Pacific.

Research reveals antibiotics are less than 50% effective in treating infections in babies and children.

Study urges Australia to research new drugs as it warns rate of mutated infections ‘much worse than anticipated’

Agriculture is making an admirable effort towards fighting antibiotic resistance and academics want doctors to do the same

Practice of prescribing two different types of drug to patients undergoing joint replacement surgery should stop, expert says

Farmer who combined campaigning on antibiotics and sustainability with a deep love of animals and literature

U.S. health officials plan to endorse a common antibiotic as a post-sex morning after pill that gay and bisexual men can use to avoid some increasingly common sexually transmitted diseases

In Yemen, a cholera epidemic in 2018 led to the emergence of multidrug-resistant V.cholerae strains. A study found a new plasmid in these bacteria, which conferred resistance to multiple antibiotics, including macrolides. This plasmid spread rapidly and was found in all epidemic samples by 2019. Genetic exchange and clinical macrolide use may…

It kills 7 million people a year. New research shows it also raises antibiotic resistance and is linked to cancer risks