Soil Could Shed Light on Antibiotic Resistance
Posted on January 21, 2006 Comments (4)
Soil Could Shed Light on Antibiotic Resistance, Science Friday podcast (7 minutes) from NPR. The podcast is an interview with Gerry Wright, McMaster University, Canada.
“New research points to drug resistance in soil-dwelling bacteria. Scientists say studying bacteria in the soil can help in understanding how the bacteria in humans develop resistance.”
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Categories: Antibiotics, Events, Health Care, Students
Tags: Antibiotics, bacteria, Health Care, npr, podcasts, Research, soil
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May 18th, 2006 @ 7:03 pm
“Scientists with Merck, isolated platensimycin from a sample of South African soil and have developed an antibiotic based on that discovery…”
April 8th, 2008 @ 10:49 am
“Unlike conventional antibiotics routinely administered by injection or pills, the so-called “healing clays” could be applied as rub-on creams or ointments to keep MRSA infections from spreading…”
May 2nd, 2009 @ 5:24 pm
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April 17th, 2012 @ 7:59 am
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