Computational methods reveal how hospital-acquired bacteria spread
Wednesday, January 16, 2013 - 10:31
in Biology & Nature
New methods are being used to develop models of the evolution of bacteria and viruses. “Essential for the evolution of the bacteria that cause hospital-acquired infections is the horizontal gene transfer. It means that several different cell processes transfer genes between the lineages of the same and different species so that the bacterium becomes resistant to antibiotics and the virulence factor rapidly spreads in the population,” explains a researcher.