Approximately 1.2 million people in the U.S. contract nontyphoidal Salmonella every year. The infections result in 23,000 hospitalizations and 450 deaths annually. Among the infections, more than ...

Historical changes in pig farming led to the global spread of Salmonella, resistant to antibiotics—a new international study led by researchers at the University of Warwick suggests. Salmonella ...

For the first time, the new report from the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System includes whole genomic sequencing data from patients infected with antibiotic-resistant Salmonella.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and public health officials in multiple states are investigating a multistate outbreak of ...

With one death and 77 people reported ill, the latest foodborne illness outbreak has led to one of the largest recalls in U.S. history. Food giant Cargill pulled a staggering 36 million pounds of ...

Antibiotics are indispensable for treating bacterial infections. But why are they sometimes ineffective, even when the ...

European surveillance data have revealed that Campylobacter bacteria in humans and animals and some strains of Salmonella continue to be highly resistant to widely used antimicrobials. The two genera ...

Salmonella genomic islands represent large segments of bacterial DNA acquired through horizontal gene transfer that can harbour a multitude of antibiotic resistance genes. These elements, such as ...

Antibiotic-resistant Salmonella is a serious public health concern that has increased in recent years as the bacteria have developed ways to survive drugs. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease ...

Even as U.S. officials are tracing the source of a multistate outbreak of salmonella poisoning that has sickened more than 70 people and killed at least one person, there’s more bad news on the ...