Environmental Engineers Seek Strategy To Control Antibiotic Resistant Genes

Rice University researchers "cured" a strain of bacteria of its ability to resist an antibiotic in an experiment that has implications for a long-standing public health crisis. Rice environmental engineer Pedro Alvarez and his team managed to remove the ability of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa microorganism to resist the antibiotic medication tetracycline by limiting its access to food and oxygen...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - Category: Consumer Health News Tags: MRSA / Drug Resistance Source Type: news