Each contained five or six well characterized antimicrobial resistance genes. (sciencedaily.com)
The paper describes various challenges arising from the process of designing a benchmark strategy for bioinformatics pipelines (2) in the identification of antimicrobial resistance genes in next generation sequencing data. (microbiology.se)
«Multidrug resistant typhoid has been coming and going since the 1970s and is caused by the bacteria picking up novel antimicrobial resistance genes, which are usually lost when we switch to a new drug,» says Dr Kathryn Holt, senior author from the University of Melbourne. (sciencedaily.com)