Widely-available antibiotics could be used in the treatment of ‘superbug’ MRSA

  02 July 2019

In a study published today (24 June) in Nature Microbiology, a team of scientists from the UK, Denmark, Germany, Portugal, and USA used genome sequencing technology to identify which genes make MRSA susceptible to this combination of drugs. They identified a number of mutations (changes in the DNA sequence) centred around a protein known as a penicillin-binding protein 2a or PBP2a.

Further reading: Wellcome Sanger Institute
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