Gunther Jansen

Resistance Is Mobile: The Accelerating Evolution of Mobile Genetic Elements Encoding Resistance

Published in Journal of Evolutionary Medicine

The alarming spread of antibiotic resistance threatens to turn even the most routine treatments of bacterial infection into a Sisyphean task. This is not only a result of proliferation of antibiotic resistant microbes, but also a consequence of horizontal transmission of resistance genes by mobile genetic elements able to transfer resistance genes ...