Antibiotic susceptibility in resistant bacteria is not static. New research shows that bacteria harboring resistance genes may respond differently to antibiotics if they are tested under conditions ...

The Texas General Land Office monitors fecal bacteria levels along Texas coastal waterways through a program called Texas Beach Watch. Our KSAT Explains team went to Galveston to see the water sample ...

New research from the Technical University of Denmark indicates that the outcome of a resistance measurement may depend on the conditions under which the bacterium is tested. Standard laboratory tests ...

A new antibiotic, identified in a soil sample, may be capable of fighting a range of drug-sensitive and drug-resistant bacteria. Researchers at Rutgers University-New Brunswick (N.J.), biotechnology ...

Sometimes, however, the standard methods are insufficient—for example, if the species of bacteria has not yet been classified or is particularly difficult to grow. A team from the University of Basel ...

As Seattle’s summer heat ramped back up, King County Public Health (KCPH) warned that several Washington beaches have returned high bacteria samples, and summer beachgoers are urged to stay out of the ...

Amid a nationwide baby formula shortage, federal investigators have been unable to definitively determine the source or sources of a rare bacteria that sickened four infants, two of them now dead, who ...

University of Basel (Switzerland) and University Hospital Basel researchers discovered 35 unknown bacterial pathogens in blood or tissue samples, including seven that caused clinical infections. The ...

Oakland County says filters are being installed in the boys' secure detention building and the school building.