Seagulls harbour antibiotic resistant bacteria
Tuesday, September 21, 2010 - 06:42
in Health & Medicine
Analysis of seagull droppings has revealed that one in ten carry 'superbug' bacteria, resistant to the last-resort antibiotic Vancomycin. Researchers writing in BioMed central's open access journal Proteome Science investigated 57 migratory seagull samples recovered from an island off the coast of Portugal...