Antibiotic Multi-resistance: Why Bacteria Are So Effective
Thursday, May 28, 2009 - 10:15
in Health & Medicine
Scientists have deciphered for the first time the molecular mechanism that enables bacteria to acquire multi-resistance to antibiotics, and that even allows them to adapt this resistance to their environment. This discovery highlights the difficulties that will have to be tackled by public health strategies if they are to address the problems created by multi-resistance.