Between 2012 and 2014, at least 35 patients at Seattle-based Virginia Mason Medical Center fell ill from carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae infections, according to a Seattle Times report. The ...

Difficult-to-treat infections caused by dangerous, drug-resistant bacteria are on an alarming upward climb, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned in a recent health alert. Known ...

Drug-resistant superbugs are sickening American hospital patients at an alarming rate — but the reality of these “nightmare bacteria” infections is even worse than the headlines suggest. Last week, ...

The CDC issued a warning over a multi-drug-resistant “nightmare bacteria” that’s been surging in the United States. Getty Images A new CDC report shows that infections caused by multi-drug-resistant ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is spreading awareness to an increase in drug-resistant bacteria in its report, Annals of Internal Medicine. Infections related to the bacteria, called ...

The infection rate of one type of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales bacteria has risen by more than 460 percent in recent years. Scientists say people receiving treatment in hospitals are at ...

In a recent study published in the American Journal of Infection Control, researchers assessed carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE) epidemiology across eight United States (US) metropolitan ...

A new study from the CDC found that infection rates for a drug-resistant “nightmare bacteria” are on the rise, increasing nearly 70% between 2019 and 2023. The increase was primarily driven by the NDM ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . It’s Friday afternoon when the question comes in: “What antibiotic should I use to treat this patient’s ...