How quickly antibiotic resistance can spread
Monday, July 11, 2016 - 12:31
in Health & Medicine
How quickly can antibiotic resistance spread? Consider the case of a Swedish man who traveled to India in 2009. While in New Delhi, the man became infected by a strain of Klebsiella bacteria bearing a gene that made it impervious to the antibiotic carbapenem. Microbiologists quickly found the gene...