Waging war on ‘superbugs’ in aged care
There’s an urgent need for more careful antibiotic management to protect older people living in residential aged care from the dangerous spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria […]
Antibiotic gut changes may shorten lifespan
A team of researchers from SAHMRI and Flinders University has found a link between the type of microbiome that repopulates the gut following antibiotics and shortened […]
Antibiotic overuse reduces bladder cancer survival
The over prescribing of antibiotics is reducing survival rates in patients with urothelial carcinoma and it needs to be stopped to avoid the serious risk posed […]
Sore throat? Don’t expect antibiotics
Doctors still frequently prescribe antibiotics for ‘strep throat’ – without using an extended consultation that may indicate a viral infection rather than a bacterial one, a […]
Antibiotic promise in superbug war
An entirely new class of antibiotics has been shown to be effective against 100 different samples of Clostridium difficile, often the cause of drug-resistant infections picked […]
Can antibiotics impair babies’ vaccine response?
Antibiotic exposure in infants could impair their responses to five important routine vaccines administered daily around the world, new research has found. Flinders University Associate Professor […]
Diabetes research gets under way
New research at Flinders is looking at how bacteriophages – viruses that infect and kill bacteria – could be used to treat diabetes-related foot ulcers. The […]