06-08-2011, 05:55 AM
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bad NEWS: Anti-microbial tactic May Make 'Bugs' STRONGER, not weaken them
Super Bacteria? Fighting Resistance Could Be Trickier Than Thought
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...when already resistant bacterial cells obtain another antibiotic-resistance gene from a small piece
of DNA called a plasmid -- a development that has been thought to have some cost to the host -- the cells
sometimes divide faster than before.
Francisco Dionisio of the University of Lisbon, one of the study's authors, said the results, which focused
on... E. coli, were unexpected.
"It's as if your PC with a mistake or bug in the operating system began to run faster after receiving a computer virus,"
Dionisio explained in an email to The Huffington Post.
"This happened in 52% of the cases studied," he added. "And we expected 0% !"
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