Genes for Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Are Found in Beijing Smog

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By Julie Fidler

Public health experts have warned that antibiotic resistance could claim 10 million people each year by 2050. In early December 2016, researchers said they had discovered that livestock had become resistant to a class of antibiotics used only in humans. Now scientists have found the genes that make bacteria resistant to antibiotics in polluted air in Beijing, China. [1]

Source: The New York Times

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In the study, the team analyzed DNA sequencing from 864 different samples from humans, animals, and the environment. Some of those samples came …read more

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