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Science 3 April 1998:
Vol. 280. no. 5360, p. 27
DOI: 10.1126/science.280.5360.27
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MICROBIOLOGY:
New Hunt for the Roots of Resistance

Dan Ferber

As bacteria worldwide acquire resistance to the drugs meant to kill them, public health experts have stepped up surveillance of antibiotic resistance in human pathogens. Now a grassroots network of scientists is taking aim at what they see as the root of the problem: resistance genes in harmless bacteria that live in humans, animals, plants, even soil and water. By keeping tabs on when and where specific antibiotic-resistance genes appear, the group hopes to predict--and one day help block--the spread of resistance.

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