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Million years old bacteria are resistant to 70% of modern antibiotics
The ancient bacterium Paenibacillus was discovered in the cave Lechuguilla, New Mexico, USA with resistance to 70% of modern antibiotics.
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Detecting bacteria resistant to most antibiotics
The findings are published by researchers at McMaster and Arkon universities. They discovered that the strains of bacteria that exist in this Lechuguilla cave, which hav…