Sentences with phrase «acquire resistance genes»

We assume that phages acquire resistance genes from already resistant bacteria and then transfer those genes to other bacteria,» says Hilbert.

Led by Newcastle University, UK, the study also showed that the repeated use of animal manure and antibiotic substitutes can increase the capacity of soil bacteria to mobilise, or ready themselves, and acquire resistance genes to new antibiotics.

Conclusions: MinION sequencing comprehensively identified pathogens and acquired resistance genes from urine in a timeframe similar to PCR (4 h from sample to result).

Results: MinION correctly identified pathogens without culture and, among 55 acquired resistance genes detected in the cultivated bacteria by Illumina sequencing, 51 were found by MinION sequencing directly from the urines; with three of the four failures in an early run with low genome coverage.

Not exact matches

The bacteria behind gonorrhoea readily acquire genes for resisting drugs and so from 2012, UK patients were given two antibiotics at once — azithromycin pills plus a ceftriaxone injection — so if bacteria acquired resistance to one, they would be killed by the other.

The desire of the host to acquire antibiotic resistance genes from its guest could have driven this chain of events, he says.

The researchers found that S. aureus acquired the gene that confers methicillin resistance — mecA — as early as the mid-1940s — fourteen years before the first use of methicillin.

Five decades on from the appearance of the first MRSA, multiple MRSA lineages have emerged which have acquired different variants of the resistance gene.»

The gene for methicillin resistance, for example, had been acquired by five separate strains in five different places.

The prevailing notion was that bacteria acquire and maintain resistance genes at a cost.

«The next step would be finding how they are acquiring the resistant bacteria and what genes are responsible for the resistance patterns we found.»

When bacteria acquire antibiotic - resistance genes they become better at surviving in the body, challenging the dogma that resistance comes with a cost

A team of French investigators now shows that bacteria that acquire plasmids containing resistance genes rarely lose them.

Bacteria can acquire resistance by getting a copy of a gene encoding an altered protein or an enzyme like beta lactamase from other bacteria, even from those of a different species.

Systemic acquired resistance is induced by R gene - mediated responses independent of cell death

We hypothesized that antimicrobial resistance can be reversed by targeting chromosomal non-essential genes that are not responsible for acquired resistance but essential for resistant bacteria under therapeutic concentrations of antimicrobials.

Short - read, high - throughput sequencing technology can not identify the chromosomal position of repetitive insertion sequences that typically flank horizontally acquired genes such as bacterial virulence genes and antibiotic resistance genes.

In addition, we found evidence that some strains have acquired antimicrobial resistance genes independently, presumably in response to antimicrobial treatment.

Our results indicate that S. argenteus has spread at a relatively rapid pace over the past 2 decades across northeastern Thailand and acquired multiple exotoxin and antibiotic resistance genes that have been linked previously with livestock - associated S. aureus Our findings highlight the clinical importance and potential pathogenicity of S. argenteus as a recently emerging pathogen.

36) Gao K, Lockwood WW, Li J, Lam WL, Li G (2008) Genomic analyses identify gene candidates for acquired irinotecan resistance in melanoma cells.