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Stealth and manipulation: Strategies of bacterial plasmids investigated

The problem of antibiotic-resistant bacteria has many health experts worried. As disease-causing bacteria adapt to some of our ways to reduce them, especially with antibiotics, it presents an arms race which we appear to be losing. Researchers seek to improve the situation by looking at how bacteria...

Stealth and manipulation: Strategies of bacterial plasmids investigated
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The problem of antibiotic-resistant bacteria has many health experts worried. As disease-causing bacteria adapt to some of our ways to reduce them, especially with antibiotics, it presents an arms race which we appear to be losing. Researchers seek to improve the situation by looking at how bacteria adapt to antibiotics.

Originally published at Phys.org

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