Germs in soil find antibiotics tasty (AP)

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Germs in soil find antibiotics tasty
    (AP)

 


AP - Antibiotics for breakfast? The drugs are supposed to kill bacteria, not feed them. Yet Harvard researchers have discovered hundreds of germs in soil that literally gobble up antibiotics, able to thrive with the potent drugs as their sole source of nutrition.


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