date:Mar 03, 2017
to antibiotics and ability to grow and thrive. The new bacteria kept the mutations even after a few generations had arisen, and the researchers found that the mutations gave the bacteria resistance to several unrelated classes of antibiotics.
The scientists found that mutations in genes that encode ribosomal components confer resistance to several classes of antibiotics, not just the one the bacteria were exposed to. The researchers also found that those mutations enhance survival of the pathog