Scientists solve 30-year old mystery on how resistance genes spread

Monday, June 19, 2017 - 06:21 in Health & Medicine

To win the war against antibiotic-resistant superbugs, scientists seek the origin of resistance genes to identify how they are introduced to disease-causing bacteria. Identifying the origin of resistance genes and how they spread is comparable to finding patient zero in an outbreak, which is not an easy task.

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