Bacteriology Antibiotic Resistance

The World Health Organization said the findings were worrisome, threatening to increase the risks of transmitting drug-resistant strains.

A firefighter in California has died from an illness that stems from a brain-eating amoeba he contracted late last year, it is reported by the Press Enterprise.

A rare bacterial disease known as Q fever is turning up in a rural northern Nevada county that also is home to a childhood leukemia cluster, according to a published report.

Call It the cough heard round the world. The World Health Organization's Feb. 26 report on how super strains of tuberculosis are on the loose

A 17-month-old baby boy from Germany is fighting a rare bacterial infection that is literally eating him alive, the UK's Daily Mail reports.

Test Identifies MRSA Bacterium in Two Hours

16 students fall ill at Bob Jones University; semester ends a week early

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Drug-resistant staph infections that have made headlines in recent weeks come from what the nation's top doctor calls "the cockroach of bacteria"

SEATTLE -- The dangerous strain of staph infection, known widely as "the superbug" has killed a Seattle man.

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