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Subterranean bacteria are prepared to survive antibiotics
By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times
April 11, 2012, 5:07 p.m.
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Scientists who collected 93 strains of bacteria from the forbidding depths of Lechuguilla found that all were resistant to at least one of the antibiotics that modern medicine uses to fight bacterial infections and some were resistant to at least 14. In addition, virtually all of the 26 antibiotics tested as part of the study proved useless in killing at least one of the strains of bacteria collected.
http://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria-20120412,0,6511188.story
By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times
April 11, 2012, 5:07 p.m.
snip
Scientists who collected 93 strains of bacteria from the forbidding depths of Lechuguilla found that all were resistant to at least one of the antibiotics that modern medicine uses to fight bacterial infections and some were resistant to at least 14. In addition, virtually all of the 26 antibiotics tested as part of the study proved useless in killing at least one of the strains of bacteria collected.
http://www.latimes.com/health/la-he-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria-20120412,0,6511188.story