Sentences with phrase «antibiotic rifampicin»
To determine whether gut microbes could affect an organism's longevity and its ability to reproduce, Vanderbilt University geneticist Seth Bordenstein and his colleagues dosed the termites Zootermopsis angusticollis and Reticulitermes flavipes with the antibiotic rifampicin.
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Rifampicin and related drugs are important antibiotics, the key to an effective «drug cocktail» that already takes about six months of treatment to cure tuberculosis, even if everything goes well.
Drug resistance in rifampicin and related antibiotics has occurred when their bacterial RNA polymerase enzymes mutate, Mahmud said, leaving them largely unaffected by antibiotics that work by inhibiting RNA synthesis.
The researchers were able to analyze the responses of individual bacteria to rifampicin, a core frontline antibiotic used to treat tuberculosis.