Uncategorized - October 18, 2017
Researchers from Gothenburg has found new antibiotic resistance genes
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg have found several new genes that make bacteria resistant to last-resort antibiotics. The genes were found by searching large volumes of bacterial DNA and are published in the scientific journal Microbiome. The researchers found 76 new types of resistance genes. Several of these genes […]
Uncategorized - August 15, 2017
New method for determining antibiotic resistance
Researchers at Uppsala University have developed a new method for rapidly determining whether infection-causing bacteria are resistant or susceptible to antibiotics. The researchers have, for the first time, developed an antibiotic resistance test that is fast enough to enable a patient to take the right antibiotic home from the health centre straight after the first […]