Shigella infections are growing and drug resistance is why
Shigella has been making people sick for thousands of years. Reports of the violent diarrheal illness it causes appear in ancient records, and the bacterium itself was formally identified in 1897 during a devastating outbreak in Japan that killed 20,000 people in just six months. The scientist who isolated it, Dr. Kiyoshi Shiga, gave the […]
Antibiotic Resistance vs. Antibiotic Tolerance: How Do They Differ?
Antibiotic tolerance is an increasingly recognized bacterial survival strategy that operates distinctly from resistance, yet contributes to the same troubling outcomes: treatment failure, persistent infection, and relapse. Understanding the difference between the two is becoming more urgent as clinicians encounter cases where standard antibiotics appear ineffective despite laboratory results suggesting the bacteria in question should […]
Antibiotic resistance breakthrough targets the very system that keeps bacteria alive
One of the most persistent challenges in modern medicine is not simply that certain bacteria have developed resistance to antibiotics. It is that resistant bacteria can extend that protection to neighboring strains that would otherwise be vulnerable, creating a kind of communal defense that makes infections dramatically harder to treat. A new study published in […]