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[ad_1] Antibiotics are used to prevent and treat bacterial infections. They have played an important role in the fight against infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, pneumonia, typhoid fever and meningitis in 20th century. However, the misuse of antibiotics has also led to the development of so-called multi-drug resistance (MDR) whereby …

[ad_1] DURHAM, NC – The bacterium that causes tularemia, the tick-borne disease, is a lean and mean infecting machine. It carries a relatively small genome and a unique set of infectious tools, including a collection of chromosomal genes called the “island of pathogenicity”. A team of researchers from Duke University, …