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Science 28 November 2003:
Vol. 302. no. 5650, p. 1488
DOI: 10.1126/science.302.5650.1488
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MICROBIOLOGY:
Triple-Threat Microbe Gained Powers From Another Bug

Dan Ferber

A study on page 1569 shows how a new strain of Staphylococcus aureus developed resistance to vancomycin, one of the few antibiotics left that reliably kills staph.

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Toxin-antitoxin systems are ubiquitous and plasmid-encoded in vancomycin-resistant enterococci.
E. M. Moritz and P. J. Hergenrother (2007)
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