19/12/2003 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission is going to provide EUR 6 million from the 6th Framework Programme on EU Research on antibiotic resistance. This amount will go to two research projects with a total budget of EUR 12.6 million. The first project will examine how resistance to the major class of antibiotics in clinical use, the â-lactam antibiotics. The second will focus on basic molecular mechanisms of resistance, specifically the Streptococcus pneumoniae, a major cause...