Is the money saved at the supermarket worth the dangers associated with the development of new 'superbugs'?
In search of a replacement, the industry is turning to a new breed of superbugs and enzymes.
Every year new superbugs are emerging bacteria that have mutated around our antibiotic defenses, resulting in untreatable disease.
The extent to which hospital superbugs are being transmitted via the air needs to be investigated, experts say.
Doctors around the world are becoming increasingly concerned about the rise of so-called superbugs which are resistant to antibiotics.
The Conservatives launched their own action plan on Tuesday on how they would tackle the rise in hospital superbugs.
As a result, the world is menaced by "superbugs" - strains of bacteria that defy all existing forms of treatment.
It's using bacteria-hating (and thankfully harmless) viruses as biosensors to quickly identify superbugs, or antibiotic-resistant bacteria that can sometimes prove fatal.
New antibiotics are needed to fight the rise of superbugs - bacteria that have become resistant to common antibiotics used to fight disease.
What drives her down into the darkness is her conviction that caves may contain our last defense against a dire health threat: antibiotic-resistant superbugs.
If the super clap explodes, it will take its place alongside those and other superbugs that are out-adapting our best attempts to stop them.
Lord Darzi, the minister in charge of reviewing health care, told MPs on Thursday that poor leadership within the NHS was to blame for hospital superbugs.
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Among the evidence: alleged deliberate efforts to discredit the catheter's antimicrobial agent as an "antibiotic"--an important distinction because it created the mistaken impression that Rochester's device could breed superbugs.
Alien superbugs and space spiders are the subjects of two student-designed science experiments due to launch toward the International Space Station today (July 20) aboard a robotic Japanese spacecraft.
"We have used microcantilever arrays to investigate drug resistance in superbugs such as MRSA, and are excited by the opportunity to extend this approach to detecting HIV markers, " she said.
The NIAID has a considerable research program dedicated to fighting antibiotic resistant bacteria and the agency awards grants to deserving companies that focus on the identification of new antimicrobials to fight threatening superbugs.
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Dr Madrenas says that understanding the mechanism used by MRSA to keep its host from falling severely ill may ultimately help in finding ways to combat superbugs by mimicking their method of self-preservation.
While such drugs are still years away, Dr Madrenas believes that knowing how MRSA colonises human hosts and controls its lethal weapons will eventually make it possible to turn those weapons on the superbugs themselves.
As the viruses change color once they've reached impervious bacterial strains, in this case variants on Staphylococcus, they can reveal superbugs within 10 to 12 minutes -- a potentially lifesaving interval when current purification-driven methods can take hours.
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