Soil holds nasty antibiotic-resistance genes

Thursday, August 30, 2012 - 16:00 in Biology & Nature

Bacteria that live in the soil seem to be swapping antibiotic-resistance genes with other, more dangerous bacteria ? the ones that cause devastating infections in humans, a new study indicates.

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