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Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Is the antibiotic apocalypse nigh?


"Up to now, bacteria that have developed resistance to colistin would have needed to have been exposed to the antibiotic for a long time before a resistant strain evolved. Plasmid-carried resistance is much more rapid. This is not the slow creep of accumulated changes, but the transfer of the entire set of genes required for resistance in one go."
pcsty at 12/01/2015 03:05:00 PM
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