Sooner or later, evolution was going to render antibiotics useless, and new evidence indicates we’re quickly being outflanked by infectious bacteria.
Researchers in China have discovered a strain of E. Coli bacteria resistant to all known antibiotics. In a study published last month in The Lancet, the scientists describe the emergence of a new gene, MCR-1, that grants E. Coli bacteria immunity to a class of antibiotics called colistin, also referred to as polymyxin. Colistin is widely
Source: Discover Magazine