Re:Australia's overuse of antibiotics driving rate of drug-r...
by GeekyBear on Thursday November 16, 2023 @02:04AM
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> How much does livestock eating antibiotics really affect the problem of resistant bacteria infecting humans?
Bacteria transfer genes from one species to another, so an innovative new genetic mutation that allows one kind of bacteria to shrug off antibiotics more effectively won't stay only in that species of bacteria or only on that farm.
> Horizontal gene transfer is the movement of genetic information between organisms, a process that includes the spread of antibiotic resistance genes among bacteria, fueling pathogen evolution.
Bacteria transfer genes from one species to another, so an innovative new genetic mutation that allows one kind of bacteria to shrug off antibiotics more effectively won't stay only in that species of bacteria or only on that farm.
> Horizontal gene transfer is the movement of genetic information between organisms, a process that includes the spread of antibiotic resistance genes among bacteria, fueling pathogen evolution.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4536854/