Researchers discovered a possible weakness in the deadly hospital superbug C. auris that could lead to new treatments for the ...

It's a high-priority human fungal pathogen, causing infection outbreaks of high mortality in health-care settings, according ...

The drug-resistant superbug fungus Candida auris is spreading rapidly across the US, infecting at least 7,000 people in 27 ...

U.S. (KXAN/WFLA) — While it sounds like a cape-wearing super-sickness, a new study is raising concerns over a potentially deadly strain of drug-resistant superbugs. The National Academy of Science ...

Growing concerns about the pace and quality of antibiotic stewardship program adoption in hospitals are also fueling the national discussion — the CDC said in May that one in three antibiotic ...

New strains of Typhoid that can resist the strongest available antibiotics have emerged in South Asia, raising concerns over the potential spread of drug-resistant infections.

A deadly fungus that can be considered a superbug due to its resistance to all types of drug therapy is spreading across the ...

Mcr-1, the gene that enables deadly bacteria to become resistant to even last resort antibiotics, such as colistin, has been identified in a Brazilian patient for the first time, according to research ...

(CNN) — The number of lives lost around the world due to infections that are resistant to the medications intended to treat them could increase nearly 70% by 2050, a new study projects, further ...

An international team of researchers has found that an antibiotic commonly prescribed for patients with liver disease, called rifaximin, has led to the global emergence of an almost untreatable form ...

A new, untreatable strain of the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea has been discovered in Japan, according to an international team of infectious disease experts. The strain, named H041, is ...