
Uncategorized - January 16, 2015
New Test for Drug-Resistant Bacteria
A group of Swedish researchers working at Uppsala University, the SciLifeLab in Stockholm and Uppsala University Hospital have discovered a faster way to identify a bacterial species and its susceptibility to antibiotics. Bacteria signal whether they are resistant when they approach antibiotics. If they are resistant to a particular type of antibiotics they continue to grow normally. If they are […]