Drug Resistance
Researchers from Rockefeller University discuss findings in drug resistance
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, January 8th, 2008
A new study, 'Antibiotic resistant Staphylococcus aureus: a paradigm of adaptive power,' is now available. "Nothing documents better the spectacular adaptive capacity of Staphylococcus aureus than the response of this important human and animal pathogen to the introduction of antimicrobial agents into the clinical environment. The effectiveness of penicillin introduced in the early 1940s was virtually annulled within a decade because of the plasmid epidemics that spread the ss-lactamase gene through the entire species of S. aureus," scientists in the United States report.
"In 1960 within one to two years of the introduction of penicillinase resistant...
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