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Anitbiotic resistant bacteria
Title: Anitbiotic resistant bacteria
Category: Science & Technology
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Anitbiotic resistant bacteria
Almost 60 years ago the first antibiotics were developed, and they were created at a time when previously untreatable infections such as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, and syphilis could be almost miraculously cured. Infections like these could be a death sentence, and until recently they many be just that again. Microbes are learning the ability to fight of these antibiotics and become resistant to them. They are gaining resistance through a number of different ways, and science is …showed first 75 words of 2146 total…
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