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Two lines in the article: > Colistin is the antibiotic of last resort for particularly dangerous types of superbugs and further down: > Colistin is widely us
by ifdefdebug 10y ago
Two lines in the article:
> Colistin is the antibiotic of last resort for particularly dangerous types of superbugs
and further down:
> Colistin is widely used in Chinese livestock ...
This is absurd. Preventive use of antibiotics on livestock works just like a giant training camp for hostile bacteria, and horizontal gene transfer will spread the necessarily created resistances to human microbes rendering them useless sooner or later.