Scientists uncover surprising mechanism behind antibiotic-resistant bacteria

Thursday, August 20, 2015 - 12:00 in Health & Medicine

The important human pathogen Staphylococcus aureus develops resistance to the antibiotic arylomycin by “switching on” a previously uncharacterized set of genes, explaining why antibiotic resistance rates in some bacteria are higher than in others, scientists say.

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