Five of the scariest antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the past five years
- Written by Laura Christine McCaughey, Research Fellow in Microbiology, University of Technology Sydney
When bacteria change, antibiotics can stop working.From shutterstock.com
Nearly one million people die every year from bacterial infections that cannot be treated with common antibiotics. This is frightening because right now we don’t have any alternatives to these antibiotics.
Antibiotic resistance occurs when bacteria change in a way that...
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