Both of the strains are typed according to their resistance to antibiotics commonly used to treat them.
It can be used also to monitor resistance to antibiotics and follow the progression of treatment of cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy or radiation.
FORBES: Wait, Did This 15-Year-Old From Maryland Just Change Cancer Treatment?
These marker genes often confer resistance to antibiotics to the plants.
Thus even in medicine, bacteria may develop resistance to antibiotics.
FORBES: Can Knowledge Be Collected? Lessons From The Health Sector
In March, the UK government's chief medical officer for England professor Dame Sally Davies warned of the danger of growing resistance to antibiotics and it should be treated as seriously as the threat of terrorism.
BBC: Lichen in Wales could hold key to antibiotics resistance
Again, there will be experts on hand to tell the leaders about rising resistance to antibiotics, about the way a hyperconnected world can quickly spread pandemics, or about concerns about how it is foolhardy to be complacent in a world where genetic mutation often outpaces human innovation.
For one thing, the phenomenon of resistance to herbicides, antibiotics, pesticides and chemotherapeutic drugs is well-known and a largely unavoidable concomitant of evolutionary pressure.
For one thing, the phenomenon of resistance to herbicides, antibiotics, pesticides and chemotherapeutic drugs is well-known and a largely unavoidable concomitant of evolutionary pressure, the result of survival of the fittest.
FORBES: The New York Times' Mark Bittman Offers Poisoned Food For Thought
However, some strains of the bacteria have now acquired some resistance to one or more of the antibiotics commonly used to treat them.
It is known to confer cross-resistance to a class of related antibiotics, including the human drug called vancomycin.
The team tested the bacteria that they found in samples from ten bears for the presence of blaTEM genes, which are known to encode resistance to a commonly used class of antibiotics that includes penicillins and cephalosporins.
ECONOMIST: Are the bugs in wild animals resistant to antibiotics?
Bacteria do produce proteolytic enzymes, which may degrade peptide antibiotics which could lead to resistance.
FORBES: The Genius Chemist And His Assault On Mutant Killer Bacteria
In contrast, the peptide antibiotics are less vulnerable to resistance because they infiltrate and damage the membrane that holds the bacterium together.
This knowledge can be applied to improving the ability of antibiotics to target ribosomes of pathogens, helping to combat the problem of resistance.
Overprescribing of antibiotics can lead to bacterial infection resistance.
Another approach aims to restorethe effectiveness of existing drugs by blocking bacteria's ability to pump antibiotics out, one mechanism of resistance.
Overuse of antibiotics is blamed for much of the rise of resistance to the drugs among bacteria.
Another physician I spoke to at the conference was fairly confident that continuing to take antibiotics when you feel better does increase bacterial resistance.
Other outfits sidestep antibiotics altogether, hoping to treat infections without breeding more resistance.
Resistance can arise due to a genetic mutation in bacteria which are normally susceptible to antibiotics.
Europe has banned the use of antibiotics to boost the growth of livestock as it can contribute to resistance.
Alternately, if you purchase organic meats or those raised without antibiotics, bacteria has not had the exposure to the drugs to develop resistance.
FORBES: Are You Eating 'Superbugs?' Resistant Bacteria Found At Alarming Rates On Meat In Stores
Undurraga is particularly concerned about the NARMS findings because it means the consumption of meat is adding to what the director-general of the World Health Organization, Dr. Margaret Chan, last year called a "post-antibiotic era" in which antibiotics will no longer work to fight disease because too many bacteria have developed resistance to it.
Undurraga is particularly concerned about the NARMS findings because it means the consumption of meat is adding to what the director of the World Health Organization, Dr. Margaret Chan, last year called a "post-antibiotic era, " or an era in which antibiotics will no longer work to fight disease because too many bacteria have developed resistance to it.
Of particular concern are the fluoroquinolones, a family of widely used human antibiotics that the FDA forbids in seafood in part to prevent bacteria from developing resistance to these important drugs.
应用推荐