Antibiotic-resistant infection is projected to catch up to cancer as the leading cause of death by 2050, making understanding and limiting the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria a priority worldwide.
In a paper recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a research team co-led by Michael S. Gilmore, Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer at Mass Eye and Ear, describes the discovery of 18 never-before-seen
Their most recent collections expanded the genus diversity of enterococcal strains by more than 25 percent and in doing so, uncovered more clues, revealing that insects and other DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2310852121
This project was supported by the Harvard-wide Program on Antibiotic Resistance, NIH/NIAID grant AI083214 and U19AI110818 to the Broad Institute. Portions of the work were supported by a Research Sabbatical grant to Gilmore from Research to Prevent Blindness to explore the origins of antibiotic resistance. Schwartzman was supported by the NIH Ruth Kirschstein fellowship F32GM121005.