Resistance To Widely-used Antibiotics Found Among Inhabitants Of Remote South American Villages

Thursday, July 17, 2008 - 23:07 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Resistance to ciprofloxacin, a member of one of the most commonly used groups of antibiotics in the world, has been discovered by a team of Canadian researchers among people in remote South American villages who are believed to have never taken this medication.

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