Saturday, August 02, 2014

[fkelucva] Antibiotic resistance through malice

The usual story is that antibiotic resistant bacteria evolved through incompetence: over-prescription and improper use of antibiotics.  However, could they actually have been bred through malice, perhaps by a Luddite, covertly released in hospitals to conceal where it came from?  Is there any way we could tell?  How difficult would such selective breeding be?

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