Antibiotics under control: Denia Hospital, frontline anti-resistance

The Hospital of Dénia organizes an Antimicrobial Therapy training, promoted by its team PROA (Programa de Optimización del Uso de Antimicrobialos), with the aim of updating the knowledge and skills of all its professionals in the rational use of antibiotics in order to guarantee effective treatments and contribute to the fight against microbial resistance.The inaugural event has been carried out by the manager of the Department of Health of Déni…

Could a regulatory network of genes in gut microbes have evolved its sophisticated and tightly regulated molecular machinery solely to indiscriminately pump out antibiotics? Researchers at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) show that this is a helper function. Ind...