Bacterial protein called UmuD may prevent antibiotic resistance
Friday, March 27, 2015 - 07:30
in Health & Medicine
The widespread and indiscriminate use of antibiotics has prompted many bacteria to mutate, an adaptation that often renders the drugs useless. The increasing threat of resistance worries infectious disease experts who fear that the era of public health successes brought by the introduction of antibiotics in the 1940s is seriously eroding, or soon even may be at an end.