For many years, experts have been warning about the threat posed by antibiotic-resistant pathogens, and that these dangerous ...

The first large-scale genetic study of E. coli's protective armor has identified the five capsule types that are responsible for 70% of all multidrug-resistant bloodstream infections in Europe.

Researchers at the University of Oxford have engineered chromosome-free bacterial particles called SimCells that killed more than 97% of drug-resistant E. coli in laboratory tests, according to ...