Bacteria Steal Genes, Spread Antibiotic Resistance
A strain of the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae, resistant to the six most frequently used antibiotics and spread worldwide including U.S. day care centers and hospitals, appears to disguise itself...
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Rockefeller Researchers Identify Novel Penicillin-resistance Gene in...
Penicillin resistance of the bacterium that causes pneumonia, the pneumococcus, is a growing global health problem. Although S. pneumoniae was once considered to be routinely susceptible to penicillin,...
View ArticleResearchers Propose New Model of Drug Resistance in Staph Bacteria
Researchers at The Rockefeller University have established a new model to explain how the infectious "staph" bacterium evades several widely used antibiotics. They show that a protein previously...
View ArticleGenetic ‘stress response’ may explain how bacteria resist drugs
Bacteria have a nasty habit of developing resistance to even our most powerful pharmaceuticals. But by tracking the staph infection of a single patient during a course of antibiotic treatment,...
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