US EditionA Gene that Converts Bacteria Into Superbacteria Spreads Through Hospitals and Farms
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A team of scientists made an alarming discovery in the urine of a patient in a hospital in Japan in 2003: a strain of Escherichia coli bacteria with a gene until then unknown that made the microbe resistant to a whole group of antibiotics. Japanese researchers called this disturbing fragment of genetic material npmA that turned the microorganism into a superbacteria immune to aminoglycosides, a family of drugs that includes some well-known ones,…
An international group of researchers, led by the Complutense University of Madrid, has detected a gene that makes bacteria resistant to vital antibiotics Read
After analyzing almost two million samples, an international team has identified the expansion in hospitals, animals and the environment of a gene called ‘npmA2’ that jumps between bacteria of different types and grants them immunity against a whole group of essential antibiotics in the Hemeroteca ICUs - Antibiotic resistance will cause 70% more deaths in 2050 A gene called npmA2, which grants immunity to a whole group of vital antibiotics in th…
An international study led by Spanish researchers shows a real risk of expansion of a gene capable of ‘blinding’ to dangerous bacteria against some types of antibiotics. It is npmA2, which, according to this analysis published in Nature, has already been detected in half a dozen countries and continues to expand in a ‘silent’ way by hospitals and farms. The npmA gene was discovered in 2003 in Japan, specifically in a patient with a clinical stra…
In hospitals and farms in six countries of the world bacteria have been detected that possess a gene that makes them "superbacteria" capable of resisting antibiotics and being incurable.
An international team of scientists led by Spain has found that a gene of "superresistance" (npmA2), capable of nullifying the efficacy of aminoglycosides, is spreading globally thanks to a complex mobile genetic element. The finding confirms the leap between species and underlines the urgent need for integrated genomic surveillance to stop superbacteria.
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