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Vaccine hope against a sexually transmitted disease: the answer to the burgeoning rise in a superbug

Gonorrhoea is a common bacterial infection caused by a bacteria called Neisseria gonorrhoeae. It is usually sexually transmitted and can cause complications such as an infection of the upper part of the female reproductive system (i.e. pelvic inflammatory disease), septic arthritis and heart muscle inflammation.... click to read more

Helen Petousis-Harris | Senior Lecturer at Immunisation Advisory Centre, School of Population Health, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Australia

vaccines

antimicrobial resistance

superbugs

gonorrhoea

meningococcus

Reading time 3.5 min

published on Jul 3, 2018

Fighting back antibiotic resistance: a new hope from the soil

Bacteria live in a hectic world. They need to find food and a happy place to live all while dividing every 20 or so minutes. To complicate things further, they must also outcompete the other bacteria they share a space with. In the human gut,... click to read more

Dan Kramer | PhD student at Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Berkeley, USA

health

antimicrobial resistance

antibiotics

soil bacteria

superbugs

MRSA

Reading time 4 min

published on Feb 24, 2016