Bacteria Pass Antibiotic Resistance Between Themselves in Just Hours

Bacteria Pass Antibiotic Resistance Between Themselves in Just Hours
(Credit: sirirat/Shutterstock) Bacterial resistance to antibiotics can spread among microbes in just two hours, reports a team of researchers. The finding, though alarming, could also lead to better ways to treat bacterial infections that do not promote the spread of antibiotic resistance. “It all happens very quickly,” said Christian Lesterlin, a geneticist at the University of Lyon in France, who led the new research. Lesterlin and his team discovered that bacteria can transfer genes co

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May 29, 2019 at 12:17AM

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