Antibiotic resistance is a bacterial defense mechanism against antibiotics. It can rapidly spread from one bacterium to another. This makes antibiotics increasingly ineffective.
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The level of resistances against antibiotics is rising. This is a great challenge for physicians and scientists. Scientists within the DZIF research field “Healthcare-associated and Antibiotic-resistant bacterial Infections” aim to develop new strategies against the development and spread of resistance.
Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) ranks among the globally most important causes of infections in humans and is considered a dreaded hospital pathogen. Active and passive immunisation against multi
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Scientists at the Research Center Borstel and the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) identified a multidrug resistant Tuberculosis-strain in Southern Africa, that is not detected by modern
Implementation of evidence-based infection control practices to reduce healthcare-associated infection remains a national and international priority. R-Net investigates the effect of various interventions aimed at limiting the spread of infections due to multi-drug resistant organisms (MDRO) ...
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Healthcare-associated infections have been growing continuously for years, resulting in hundreds of thousands of avoidable deaths each year. The main culprit is bacteria that have become resistant to
Since 2014, DZIF scientists are developing a promising antibiotic for tuberculosis, which has also proven to be effective effective against multidrug-resistant pathogens in preclinical tests. The new
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