Resistance To Antibiotics Is Ancient

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Resistance To Antibiotics Is Ancient

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Scientists were surprised at how fast bacteria developed resistance to the miracle antibiotic drugs when they were developed less than a century ago. Now scientists at McMaster University have fou

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