AMR-kleb/staph (@s-rowe-conlon.bsky.social)

Great work from Zajeba Tabashsum, a very talented postdoc in my lab. Her paper describes how a host produced unsaturated fatty acid (palmitoleic acid) overcomes vancomycin resistance in VRSA strains. #AMR #Staphaureus journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

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Palmitoleic acid sensitizes vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus to vancomycin by outpacing the expression of resistance genes | Microbiology Spectrum The development of antibiotics has transformed medicine, reducing the incidence and severity of bacterial infections and allowing for advancements in healthcare, including invasive surgeries and organ... https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.01996-24