Antibiotic Resistance

Syllabus- General Studies 3(science and technology) Context During evolution, the fitness costs experienced by bacteria under constant and fluctuating environments pose a problem that has not be solved. One way of seeing this is through the example of multi-drug resistance. It is not clear why some bacteria evolve multi-drug resistance while others do not. New research from the Population Biology Lab at IISER Pune could hold a key to this and a similar class of puzzles. Multi-drug resistance: It is a menace in public health, however, it is a fascinating problem to an evolutionary biologist who sees it from this....Read More