Research provides better understanding of how antibiotic resistance arises – News-Medical.net

Researchers at the Quadram Institute on the Norwich Research Park have shown how the development of antibiotic resistance by bacteria can have ‘side-effects’ for them including affecting their ability to cause disease.
Antibiotic resistance remains one of the greatest challenges to global health with very few new antibiotics and widespread resistance. It has been estimated that tens of millions of people will soon die annually due to antibiotic resistant infections not being treatable. This new…

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