Enzymes act like a switch, turning antibiotic resistance on and off in enterococci
Monday, October 31, 2011 - 23:30
in Health & Medicine
Antibiotic-resistant enterococci are a serious problem for patients in the hospital, but little is known about how these bacteria are able to escape antibiotics. New discoveries about the ways in which enterococci turn their resistance to cephalosporin antibiotics on and off are described in a new study.