Drug-Resistant Genes Spread among Bacteria

Thursday, December 16, 2010 - 08:01 in Health & Medicine

In the fight to stay alive, many bacteria, such as MRSA , have developed resistance to commonly used antibiotics . But other bacteria are using a more insidious type of resistance: that imbued by transferable genes, which can spread among commonly circulating strains. [More]

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