By evolving in an environment of antibiotic production, incredibly resilient bacteria must develop diverse ways to survive or resist the toxic antimicrobial compounds produced by their neighbors.

[The Owls are] athletic and long, and that's what Louisville is. We'll be playing in a tough environment, so I feel good going into that game because of the way we played against Temple.

Being assimilated into a new culture and environment takes time and if not managed carefully, can turn into an ugly experience.

It's a pretty exciting environment.

We were curious to see where these things might come from in the first place, so it seemed that was a logical place to start. I expect lots of these (drug-resistant) genes are peppered all over the microbial community.

It explains where these things come from in the first place. This work could prove to be extremely valuable to the drug development process.