File:Antimicrobial resistance - mutation.gif

Antimicrobial_resistance_-_mutation.gif (600 × 248 pixels, file size: 30 KB, MIME type: image/gif)

Summary

Description
English: Diagram showing how genetic mutation causes drug resistance. Bacteria multiply by the millions. A few of these bacteria will mutate. Some mutations make the bacterium drug resistant. In the presense of drugs, only drug resistant bacteria survive. Drug resistant bacteria multiply and thrive.
Date
Source http://www.niaid.nih.gov/topics/antimicrobialResistance/Understanding/Pages/mutation.aspx
Author NIAID

Licensing

Public domain This image is a work of the National Institutes of Health, part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, taken or made as part of an employee's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.
Please ensure that this image was actually created by the US Federal government. The NIH frequently uses commercial images which are not public domain.
This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

February 2009

image/gif

4112fc130aa880158d2d5f0136600dc1b0054590

30,298 byte

248 pixel

600 pixel

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current05:34, 28 July 2015Thumbnail for version as of 05:34, 28 July 2015600 × 248 (30 KB)CFCFUser created page with UploadWizard

The following page uses this file:

Global file usage

The following other wikis use this file: