Antibiotics have transformed modern medicine. They are essential for treating infectious
diseases and enable vital therapies and procedures. However, despite this success, their …

Background Natural history studies have correlated serotype-specific anti–capsular
polysaccharide (CPS) IgG in newborns with a reduced risk of group B streptococcal disease …

With the extensive production and use of antibiotics for medicinal and veterinary purposes,
antibiotics and genes that code for antibiotic resistance are now present in various …

Background Drug-resistant gram-negative (GN) pathogens are a common cause of neonatal
sepsis in low-and middle-income countries. Identifying GN transmission patterns is vital to …

The advent and use of antimicrobials have played a key role in treating potentially life‐
threatening infectious diseases, improving health, and saving the lives of millions of people …

Groundwater is the main source of freshwater in the European Union, yet freshwaters are
polluted by organic contaminants if contaminants are not efficiently removed in wastewater …

Bacterial antibiotic resistance is a public health issue. It means that drugs become
ineffective, infections persist and have a huge impact on the health of patients and their …

Acute otitis media (AOM) is a leading cause of antibiotic prescriptions in children worldwide,
even in the era of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines. We aimed to assess the bacterial …

Antimicrobial-resistant bacterial infections pose a significant challenge to health worldwide.
In 2019, there were an estimated 1.95 million deaths and 47.9 million lost disability-adjusted …

Antibiotics, which hit the market with astounding impact, were once called miracle drugs, as
these were considered the ultimate cure for infectious diseases in the mid-20th century …