Sentences with phrase «of genes for antibiotic resistance»

Though well - known pathogens weren't seen in abundance, the presence of genes for antibiotic resistance, resistance to water disinfectants and virulence raises concerns because bacteria can share such genes to potentially become more significant health threats.

The answer is that it forms the platform for illuminating the interaction between the use of animal manure and the appearance of genes for antibiotic resistance in soil.

Not exact matches

A 2003 study of the mouths of healthy kindergartners found that 97 percent harbored bacteria with genes for resistance to four out of six tested antibiotics.

Bacteriophages, or viruses that infect bacterial pathogens, may also act as vectors of virulence or of antibiotic resistance genes, ultimately making bacterial disease worse for the host.

«You've got the genes encoding for resistance in the soil beneath these operations,» he says, «and we know that the majority of the antibiotics animals consume get excreted intact.»

A plasmid, a simple kind of DNA - delivery vehicle, will move a gene for antibiotic resistance into the bacterial cells, jump - starting the Crispr - Cas9 system.

But bacteria can pass on the genes for antibiotic resistance, so any source of resistance is concerning.

Rudich and his team then explored the genes in these bacteria, checking for antibiotic resistance — a trait that can arise owing to elevated use of antibiotics but also naturally, especially in soil bacteria.

It will also allow for easier identification of genes that contribute to the bacteria's spread from patient to patient, and more meaningful scientific experiments to understand the bug's resistance to antibiotics or identify new antimicrobial compounds that target specific genes necessary for maintaining these persistent infections.

Collected in Denmark — where antibiotics were banned in agriculture from the 1990s for non-therapeutic use — the soil archives provide an «antibiotic resistance timeline» that reflects resistant genes found in the environment and the evolution of the same types of antibiotic resistance in medicine.

The genes encoding NDM - 1 and other antibiotic resistance factors are usually carried on plasmids — circular strands of DNA separate from the bacterial genome — making it easier for them to spread through populations.

Bacteria can become resistant to the antibiotic either as the result of a spontaneous mutation or by picking up an appropriate «resistance gene» (which codes for a protein that confers resistance) from another bacterium via genetic exchange.

Researchers will also want to find out whether bacterial integrons of other species can also pick up genes besides those for antibiotic resistance.

While antibiotic resistance genes are not harmful in themselves, they limit the use of antibiotics for treating bacterial infections and pose a serious threat to global public health if they get transmitted to humans from environmental sources, such as compost.

They also say they are concerned about the antibiotic resistance marker gene that the wheat contains, and assert that the researchers «are openly releasing a synthetic version of a compound that... has had no long - term health safety tests whatsoever for human consumption, or for its impacts on non-target species.»

The scientists have also detected resistance genes for sulphonamides and another antibiotic in the treated wastewater — which will be turned into snow at a nearby ski resort, in a relatively pristine part of a river basin, later this year.

That background makes it important to characterize «both the natural occurrence of the antibiotic - resistance genes and the anthropogenic load, and where those genes come from, and it's good to do it in a quantitative way,» as Pruden's team did for the South Platte, says Joakim Larsson of the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, who has tracked antibiotics and resistance genes in India and Sweden.

So for example, if one microbe is resistant to antibiotics and the other one isn't, if we let them have sex, maybe one of them will pass the resistance gene on to the other one and we can figure out where it is by seeing how long it takes for that gene to get from one microbe to the other.

The results indicate that — at least for bacteria that swap resistance genes — simply managing the amount of antibiotics being used will not turn the tide on the growing problem of resistance.

«If mcr - 1 is present in India then that will be a disaster,» says Ghafur, who fears it will spread as fast as did genes for resistance to another antibiotic of last resort, carbapenem.

«For all of the bacteria we tested, their conjugation rate is sufficiently fast that, even if you don't use antibiotics, the resistance can be maintained — even if the genes carry a high cost.»

Dr Melita Gordon, from the University of Liverpool's Institute of Infection and Global Health, said: «Importantly, the antibiotic resistance genes, which have previously been carried on a separate genetic package, have now been incorporated into the main chromosome of the bacteria itself, which is likely to make it easier for the Typhoid strain to retain these resistance genes.»

The accuracy of the poreFUME pipeline is > 97 % sufficient for the reliable annotation of antibiotic resistance genes.

Conjugation is the main route for horizontal gene transfer in bacteria and is responsible for the spread of antibiotic resistance.

An assessment of the risks associated with the use of antibiotic resistance genes in genetically modified plants: report of the Working Party of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.

To characterize the resistome in detail we searched the metagenomes for signatures of known antibiotic resistance genes.

Recently, exceptional environmental releases of antibiotics have been documented, but the effects on the promotion of resistance genes and the potential for horizontal gene transfer have yet received limited attention.

Significant differences in abundances were found for several resistance genes associated with resistance to several classes of antibiotics, including sulfonamides, fluoroquinolones and aminoglycosides (Figure 2 and Tables S12, S13, S14, S15, S16).

So if you're going to use a prescriptive antibiotic, we can tell you if the microbiotia of the patient harbors the genes for resistance to sulfonamide or fluoroquinolones or some others.

Examining E. coli bacteria, which are responsible for about 80 % of urinary tract infections, the researchers found an identical gene for antibiotic resistance in both humans and animals.

In this manner, copies of genes that code for antibiotic resistance can be passed around, and the recipients can reproduce themselves at a furious rate, further propagating the gene.