University of Queensland researchers say metal compounds could be the answer to the growing problem of drug-resistant fungal infections. Associate Professor Mark Blaskovich, Dr Alysha Elliott and other researchers from UQ’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience, along with Dr Angelo Frei from The University of Bern in Switzerland, led a group of collaborators which found one […]
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Manuka honey could help to clear deadly drug-resistant lung infection: Scientists develop a potential nebulisation treatment using manuka honey to clear a drug resistant lung infection that can be fatal in cystic fibrosis patients Aston University researchers combined the antibiotic amikacin with manuka honey as a novel treatment for Mycobacterium abscessus. Using the manuka honey […]
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Researchers discover drug-resistant environmental mould is capable of infecting people. A new study led by Imperial College London finds that drug-resistant mould is spreading from the environment and infecting susceptible people’s lungs. The researchers found six cases of people infected with a drug-resistant form of a fungi called Aspergillus fumigatus that could be traced back to […]