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Antibiotic resistance
Bacteria may become resistant to an antibiotic because the bacteria contain genes that confer drug resistance. Frequently these drug resistant genes are carried by natural plasmids.
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Antibiotic resistance is the ability of a microorganism to withstand the effects of an antibiotic. Antibiotic resistance can develop naturally via natural selection through random mutation.
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Antibiotic resistance
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Antibiotic resistance is the ability of a microorganism to withstand the effects of an antibiotic.
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Antibiotic resistance genes can be obtained by the uptake of free-floating DNA released from a bacterial cell that has died.
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Antibiotic resistance
A controversial aspect of GM technology is the use of antibiotic-resistance genes as markers to help locate cells in which gene transfer was successful.
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Antibiotic resistance: Plasmids generally contain genes which confer on the host bacterium the ability to survive a given antibiotic.
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Antibiotic resistance: Resistance conferred to the host the ability to survive a given antibiotic by plasmids containing resistance genes.
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antibiotic resistance Tendency of certain bacteria to develop a resistance to commonly over-used antibiotics.
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Antibiotic resistance in bacteria
In modern times antibiotics, drugs that target specific features of bacteria, have become very popular. Bacteria evolve very quickly so it is not surprising that they have evolved resistance to antibiotics.
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Measuring Antibiotic Resistance
What can you do to delay the spread of antibiotic resistance?
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(See Antibiotic resistance, Bacteriocide, Bacteriostat.) Antibiotic resistance. The ability of a microorganism to produce a protein that disables an antibiotic or prevents transport of the antibiotic into the cell. Antibody.
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[A plasmalogen] plasmid An extrachromosomal, independently replicating, small circular DNA molecule of prokaryotes associated with antibiotic resistance; commonly employed in genetic engineering.
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Integron
DNA fragments that serve as sites for insertion of a variety of other DNA fragments (especially antibiotic resistance genes) and facilitate their transfer into other cells.
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With respect to cloning of DNA, refers to the transformation of bacteria (usually to specific antibiotic resistance) due to the uptake of foreign DNA.
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