ApocaDocs: The Enemy Within: A New Pattern of Antibiotic Resistance

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Posted Tue Mar 22 2011: from Scientific American:


	The Enemy Within: A New Pattern of Antibiotic Resistance http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1300814489 A new pattern of resistance has emerged among a particularly challenging group of bacteria called the gram-negatives; it threatens to make many common infections untreatable.... The bacterial genes responsible confer resistance to the carbapenems, a group of so-called last-resort antibiotics. Two of the most important resistance genes are dubbed NDM-1 and KPC. Carbapenem resistance in gram-negative bacteria is especially worrisome because these germs are ubiquitous and share genes easily. Plus, no new drugs for these bugs are being developed. This confluence of factors means many people in hospitals and in the wider community could die of newly untreatable infections of the urinary tract, blood and other tissues.

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Carbapenem resistance? Carpe diem.