76 new antibiotic-resistant genes identified

London: Researchers have found 76 previously unknown genes that make bacteria resistant to last-resort antibiotics. The genes were found while searching large volumes of bacterial DNA.

The findings showed that several of these resistance genes can provide bacteria with the ability to degrade carbapenems -- most powerful class of antibiotics used to treat multi-resistant bacteria.

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