Key to new antibiotics could be deep within isolated cave

Wednesday, April 11, 2012 - 21:30 in Biology & Nature

Researchers discovered a remarkable prevalence of antibiotic resistance bacteria isolated from Lechuguilla Cave in New Mexico, one of the deepest and largest caves in the world and a place isolated from human contact for more than four million years.

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