Sentences with phrase «resistance genes come»

Identifying where resistance genes come from and how they spread somewhat compares to finding patient zero in an outbreak, which is not an easy task.

Is the jump in resistance genes coming from a population explosion in the resistant enteric, or intestinal, bacteria coming into the sewage plant?

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Specifically, they have found unnaturally high levels of antibiotic resistance genes in sediments where the river comes into contact with treated municipal wastewater effluent and farm irrigation runoff as it flows 126 miles from Rocky Mountain National Park through Fort Collins and across Colorado's eastern plain, home to some of the country's most densely packed livestock operations.

Bacteria expressing enzyme in one cell (bright green), while genetically identical cells do not, remaining protected from antibiotic onslaught; image courtesy of Yuichi Wakamoto / Neeraj Dhar / John McKinney Some strains of nasty bacterial infections, such as MRSA (methicillin - resistant Staphylococcus aureus), come loaded with resistance to antibiotics built right into their genes.

«We found that as more «mixing» occurs between local dust and that which comes from far off, the lower the contribution of the imported antibiotic resistance genes.»

How many different genes for antibiotic resistance come to Israel from the various dust storms, and how prevalent are these genes?

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.

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

If these bacteria happen to come into contact with other microbes that carry resistance genes, those genes can pop over in one step.

Most antibiotic resistance probably comes from soil bacteria, and the genes they carry genes can readily be disseminated from one species of bacteria to another on plasmids.

A certain percentage of any living population of pest has a gene or three that confer resistance to the chemical coming at them.