We can track antibiotic resistance in wild bears’ tooth plaque

The mouth bacteria of wild bears in Sweden hold a historical record of human antibiotic use and the rise of antimicrobial resistance

We can track antibiotic resistance in wild bears’ tooth plaque

By Charlotte Hartley

A brownish  carnivore  successful  Sweden

A brownish carnivore successful Sweden

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The rima bacteria of chaotic bears successful Sweden clasp a humanities grounds of quality antibiotic usage and the emergence of antibiotic resistance.

Antibiotics are utilized wide successful medicine and agriculture, and tin leak into the situation via untreated discarded water. Wild animals tin past brushwood contaminated water, ungraded oregon nutrient sources, and play a relation successful the improvement of antibiotic resistance.

To way changes successful antibiotic absorption implicit time, Jaelle Brealey, past astatine Uppsala University successful Sweden, and her colleagues sequenced the oral microbiomes …

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