How anti-CRISPR proteins promote the spread of hospital-acquired infections

Researchers from Skoltech—a VEB.RF group institution—and their colleagues from the U.S. and China have explained how the antibiotic resistance gene established itself in the genome of the bacterium Klebsiella pneumoniae. The findings could help control this widespread microbe, which can cause pneumonia, meningitis and other, often hospital-acquired, infections in patients with weakened immunity. The findings were reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.