Bacteria still resistant after two and a half years

A Canadian study showed that two and a half years after stopping the administration of antibiotics on farms, bacteria was still showing resistance to antibiotics. The study report said that farms quitting antibiotics may still be a breeding ground for drug resistance germs. Ecologist Martin Chénier and his colleagues of McGill University, Canada, wanted to know whether drug resistant bacteria would, when their exposure to antibiotics ceased, throw out the genes that code for antibiotic resistance, the team plan to publish their work in Microbial Ecology. Read more ...