New hypothesis: Why bacteria are becoming increasingly more resistant to antibiotics

Thursday, March 7, 2013 - 11:34 in Health & Medicine

According to his theory, bacteria that are non-resistant to antibiotics acquire said resistance accidentally because they take up the DNA of others that are resistant, due to the stress to which they are subjected.

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