'Stressed' bacteria become resistant to antibiotics

Thursday, February 21, 2013 - 19:00 in Biology & Nature

Bacteria become resistant to antibiotics when stressed, finds research published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology. In particular E. coli grown at high temperatures become resistant to rifampicin.

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