Dangerous liaisons: Bacterial 'sex' causes antibiotic resistance
Friday, June 12, 2009 - 12:49
in Health & Medicine
Some disease-causing bacteria are becoming resistant to antibiotics because they have peculiar sex lives, say researchers publishing new results today in the journal Science. The new study helps scientists understand how bacteria develop resistance to antibiotics, which is a major challenge for those treating infectious diseases, say the authors from Imperial College London...
Read the whole article on Science Centric
More from Science Centric
Related
- Dangerous liaisons: Bacterial 'sex' causes antibiotic resistanceThu, 11 Jun 2009, 14:43:14 EDT
- Blocking the spread of antibiotic resistance in bacteriaThu, 18 Dec 2008, 14:50:04 EST
- MIT, BU team combats antibiotic resistance with engineered virusesMon, 2 Mar 2009, 17:39:32 EST
- Einstein researchers develop novel antibiotics that don't trigger resistanceFri, 13 Mar 2009, 15:08:30 EDT
- Resistance to antibiotics: When 1+1 is not 2Fri, 24 Jul 2009, 1:08:10 EDT