Team discovers evolutionary mechanism that allows bacteria to resist antibiotics

Friday, January 23, 2015 - 14:00 in Biology & Nature

In research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Saint Louis University Mee-Ngan F. Yap, Ph.D., discovered new information about how antibiotics like azithromycin stop staph infections, and why staph sometimes becomes resistant to drugs.

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