(精编)bacteria subsisting on antibiotics教学课件.pptVIP

Bacteria Subsisting on Antibiotics Gautam Dantas Church Lab CEGS Annual Grantee Meeting - 2008 Agency for healthcare research and quality, 2006 US reported MRSA infections [1000’s] in US: MRSA kills more people than AIDS 2006: 18,964 2006: 14,627 Mechanisms of antibiotic resistance antibiotic modification efflux target modification resistance gene origin hypothesis: antibiotic resistance genes originated as producer self immunity and was transferred to human pathogens Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 70:2276 (1973) Antibiotic eaters are phylogenetically diverse G. Dantas., M. Sommer et al. Scien