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Trumpcare has got this!


               
2016 Dec 7, 7:08pm   474 views  1 comment

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http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/12/another-novel-superbug-shows-us-hog-farm

On a US hog farm, they found bacteria that can withstand a crucial family of antibiotics. Carbapenems, as they are known, are a "last line of defense" against bacterial pathogens that can resist other antibiotics, the paper notes. Worse still, the gene that allowed the bacteria to resist carbapenems turned up in a plasmid—small chunks of DNA found in bacterial cells.

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