Lee Kurtz
@microdoc.bsky.social
Microbiologist, professor, Chair, animal lover
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Thank you for this. VERY useful for my class.
What was antibiotic resistance like before we ever used antibiotics? How did we change what antibiotic resistance genes looked like over 100 years?
Our paper looking at resistance genes from a century of NCTC historical isolates now out in mGen:
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
Our paper looking at resistance genes from a century of NCTC historical isolates now out in mGen:
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
Genomic resistance in historical clinical isolates increased in frequency and mobility after the age of antibiotics
Antibiotic resistance is frequently observed shortly after the clinical introduction of an antibiotic. Whether and how frequently that resistance occurred before the introduction is harder to determin...
www.microbiologyresearch.org
September 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Thank you for this. VERY useful for my class.
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So how’s it going so far?
January 25, 2025 at 7:41 PM
So how’s it going so far?
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January 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Thinking of my mom today. 😞
September 18, 2023 at 7:35 PM
Thinking of my mom today. 😞
Two of my three rescue babies.
August 2, 2023 at 11:34 PM
Two of my three rescue babies.