Phage spread antibiotic resistance

Friday, May 15, 2015 - 13:30 in Health & Medicine

Nearly half of the 50 chicken meat samples purchased from supermarkets, street markets, and butchers in Austria contained viruses that are capable of transferring antibiotic resistance genes from one bacterium to another -- or from one species to another, investigators report.

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