Gut Harbors antibiotic resistance
The millions of microbes that crowd the human intestinal tract are teeming with new antibiotic resistance genes that could jump to disease-causing pathogens, according to researchers from Harvard University. They found more than 90 undiscovered bacterial genes capable of conferring antibiotic resistance hiding in microbes harvested from two healthy adults. They report their findings in [...]
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http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/essays/article989567.ece MRSA killed Alonzo Smith, an 18-year-old football player from Liberty High School in Kissimmee last September. Smith follows a long line of football players who have been sickened after infection with MRSA, a highly resistant superbug. In fact, the National Football League was so concerned about the spread of MRSA in locker rooms that [...]
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