Microbial Drug Resistant Mutations Found via Novel Genome Screen

A scientific team from the Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, report the discovery of a number of previously unknown antibiotic-resistant genes. The researchers found the genes by searching large volumes of bacterial DNA collected from humans and various environments from all over the world. Their study (“Identification of 76 Novel B1 Metallo-β-Lactamases through Large-Scale Screening of Genomic and Metagenomic Data”) is published in Micr