How bacteria play pass the parcel—and help each other evade antibiotics
Thursday, September 13, 2018 - 04:05
in Health & Medicine
Bacteria are very sneaky in their efforts to develop resistance to antibiotics. Some strains of bacteria package up the genetic instructions for how they defend themselves and cause disease, and pass this information on to neighbouring, naïve, bacteria—essentially gifting their colleagues with the defences they need to survive against our medical armoury of antibiotics.