InfectionControlToday.com recently featured an article exploring a newly released study published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC) focused on pathogens and how they communicate distress signals within a group of bacteria in response to certain antibiotics.
This communication was found to vary across the colony and suggests that this bacterium may develop protective behaviors that contribute to its ability to tolerate some antibiotics. There is a general lack of understanding about how communities of bacteria, like the opportunistic pathogen P. aeruginosa, respond to antibiotics.
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