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Solving a mystery: How the TB bacterium develops rapid resistance to antibiotics – EurekAlert
These slow growing bacteria have long puzzled TB researchers with their fairly rapid resistance to antibiotics. Researchers may have been barking up the wrong tree…
IMAGE: DNA methylation in the epigenetic domain holds the key to why the TB bacterium develops fairly rapid antibiotic resistance.
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Credit: SDSU
For a slow-growing microbe that multiplies infrequently, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the pathogen that causes tuberculosis (TB) has long puzzled researchers as to how it develops resistance to antibiotics so quickly, in a matter of weeks to months.
Now, TB researchers at San Diego State University have uncovered a crucial clue to the mystery:…
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