Researchers from Osaka University have made the striking discovery that multidrug-resistant bacteria may have been around longer than we thought. In findings published this month in Communications Biology, the researchers investigated the evolutionary relationships among hundreds of RND-type efflux pumps—specialized proteins that pump multiple different types of antibiotics out of a bacterial cell, making it multidrug resistant.
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