Sentences with phrase «resistance genes from»

Using high - throughput sequencing of DNA from river sediment up and downstream from the Indian treatment plant [11] we identified a high prevalence of resistance genes from multiple classes of antibiotics.

... the argument that occasional transfer of these particular resistance genes from GM plants to bacteria would pose an unacceptable risk to human or animal health has little substance.

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

She did her PhD research in a collaborative project involving Punjab Agricultural University and the John Innes Centre, UK, to deploy stripe and leaf rust resistance genes from non-progenitor wild wheat in commercial cultivars.

Diverse and abundant antibiotic resistance genes from mariculture sites of China's coastline — Quanxin Gao — Science of The Total Environment

Herbicide - resistance genes from GM canola have turned up in wild, weedy mustard plants on roadsides in the United States, Canada and elsewhere.

He agrees with Chénier about the need for more research on the spread of resistance genes from farms to the environment.

«We were happy to find that antibiotic resistance genes from soil bacteria generally aren't poised to jump suddenly into pathogens,» Dantas said.

«We obtained a total of 36 antibiotic resistance genes from the antibiotic - resistant E. coli.»

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

Ideally, they could insert the resistance genes from Asian chestnuts into American ones.

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

More worrisome, perhaps, is that Mackie pulled more resistance genes from his deepest test wells, suggesting that the genes percolated down toward the drinking water supplies used by surrounding communities.

A concerning finding among the Brazilian hybrids was that one was 51 per cent earworm but included a known resistance gene from the bollworm.

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.

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.

No doctor wants to ignore an opportunity to save a patient from infectious disease, yet much of what is prescribed is probably unnecessary — and all of it feeds the spread of resistance genes in hospitals and apparently throughout the environment.

The resistance genes bedeviling doctors had evidently passed through many intermediaries on their way from soil to critically ill patients.

By combining understanding of resistance genes with knowledge of the pathogen, they hope to develop Desiree and Maris Piper varieties that can completely thwart attacks from late blight.

Over the past 60 years, genes for antibiotic resistance have gone from rare to commonplace in the microbes that routinely infect our bodies.

But the rapid rise of bacterial genes for drug resistance stems from more than lucky mutation, Levy adds.

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

Sidney Altman and his colleagues at Yale University used one of the bacteria's own enzymes, called RNase P, to disable RNA made from genes that had been linked to drug resistance.

«The rising level of integrons after 1990 in manured soil could indicate that through our efforts to reduce antibiotic resistance, we have unintentionally increased resistance gene exchange and more study is needed on the use of animal manure,» says Prof Graham from Newcastle University.

Nor would they be able to receive any genes from natural bacteria that would endow them with antibiotic resistance or the ability to make toxins.

Gene drive systems that use genetic approaches to kill mosquitoes, prevent them from breeding, or stop them from transmitting the malaria - causing parasite are under development, but a concern is that mosquitoes could evolve resistance to these techniques, too.

The first transgenic crop likely to be put forward for approval for open trials and commercial release is Bt cotton — which has added genes from the Bacillus thuringiensis bacterium, making the plant produce toxins that confer resistance to some insect pests.

In the last three years, Byamukama and graduate student Krishna Acharya have collected soil samples from 28 East River counties to determine which resistance gene sources are still effective against the predominant races of Heterodera glycine, or soybean cyst nematode, in South Dakota.

Samples collected from soil contained the most diverse pool of resistance genes, the authors found.

For more than 30 years, scientists have proposed that resistance genes actually originate from the microorganisms producing the antibiotic.

We could get radiation - resistance genes, for example, from the Bdelloid rotifer, a class of small invertebrates that live in freshwater pools and survive megadoses of ionizing radiation.

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.

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.

From isolated caves to ancient permafrost, antibiotic - resistant bacteria and genes for resistance have been showing up in unexpected places.

«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.»

Based on the apparent geographic exclusivity of the two resistance genes, the scientists expected to find that bacteria from the two regions were genetically different.

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

The reference genome from QMUL was used by scientists at University of York who discovered genes that are associated with greater resistance to ash dieback.

Not only can molecular biologists swap genes in and out of organisms to increase their virulence or resistance to antibiotics, they can now assemble entire pathogens wholly from scratch.

And the shared map implies that genes for important characteristics, such as disease resistance, photoperiodism, drought tolerance, storage proteins and the like, can be plucked direct from one genome and applied in another.

«Invasive weed Kochia's resistance to well - known herbicide stems from increase in gene copies.»

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

This analysis, done on separate samples from the same patient, revealed that many of the affected genes confer advantages to cancer cells by, for example, enhancing cell migration or resistance to chemotherapy.

And both bacteria displayed the very same resistance gene — most likely it had been transferred to them from bacteria living in the gastrointestinal tract.

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.

Analysing the samples, the team — involving experts from Newcastle University, the University of Strathclyde and Aarhus University — were able to measure the relative abundance of specific β - lactam antibiotic resistant genes, which can confer resistance to a class of antibiotics that are of considerable medical importance.

As a team of researchers from four European countries and South Korea report in Science today, a gene the group dubbed ethA2 is normally inactive in M. tuberculosis, so the bacteria hasn't had a chance to develop resistance to it.

They found that the phages from antibiotic - treated mice carried significantly higher numbers of bacterial drug - resistance genes than they would have carried by chance.

That's because gut phage from mice treated with one drug carried high levels of genes that confer resistance to different drugs, which means that the phage could serve as backup when bacteria must find ways to withstand a variety of antibiotics.