By evolving in an environment of antibiotic production, incredibly resilient bacteria must develop diverse ways to survive or resist the toxic antimicrobial compounds produced by their neighbors. |
It explains where these things come from in the first place. This work could prove to be extremely valuable to the drug development process. |
Their coping tactics may be able to give us a glimpse into the future of clinical resistance to antibiotics. |
We found old mechanisms and new mechanisms. |
We were curious to see where these things might come from in the first place, so it seemed that was a logical place to start. I expect lots of these (drug-resistant) genes are peppered all over the microbial community. |