To make a more efficient antibiotic treatment, researchers reporting in ACS Central Science modified penicillin, so that it’s ...

To treat bacterial infections, medical professionals prescribe antibiotics. But not all active medicine gets used up by the ...

UC researchers found high E. coli levels after moderate rainfall on June 7th, bucking previous assumptions that the bacteria only flourished after sewer overflows. The team says leaks may be to blame.

Antibiotics are supposed to wipe out bacteria, yet the drugs can sometimes hand microbes an unexpected advantage.

An IR microscope was utilized, and a computational classification method was developed to analyze the IR spectra by novel pattern-recognition and statistical tools, to determine E. coli susceptibility ...

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has issued a public health alert for certain raw ground beef products sold ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service has issued a public health alert for ground beef ...

The beef, which may be contaminated with E. coli, was distributed to Whole Foods Market retail locations across the U.S.

U.S. agriculture officials are warning that packages of ground beef sold at Whole Foods markets may be contaminated with E.

Organic ground beef distributed to Whole Foods Market stores around the country might have the most deadly form of E. coli, according to a USDA public health alert that posted Tuesday night.

Last November, 9-year-old Colton George became sick and nearly died after eating a salad, which was tainted with E. coli. He spent weeks in the hospital on kidney dialysis. Despite there being a ...

The E. coli bacteria that ravaged Colton’s kidneys was a genetic match to the strain that killed one person and sickened nearly 90 people in 15 states last fall. Federal health agencies investigated ...