Protein found to promote antibiotic resistance in a common food-borne pathogen
Friday, June 6, 2008 - 12:42
in Biology & Nature
Researchers from Iowa State University have identified a novel factor that promotes the development of antibiotic resistance in a bacterial pathogen. The study, published 6th June in the open-access journal PLoS Pathogens, explains that Mfd, a protein involved in DNA transcription and repair, plays an important role in the development of fluoroquinolone resistance in Campylobacter...
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