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Am I "captain obvious" in pointing out that one of the viruses is a bacteriophage? They actually help us (Eukaryotes, broadly) a lot in containing the spread o
by dav_Oz 6y ago
Am I "captain obvious" in pointing out that one of the viruses is a bacteriophage?
They actually help us (Eukaryotes, broadly) a lot in containing the spread of bacteria.
Maybe in the future our only help in dealing with multi-resistant ones (because of our mindless use of antibiotics), which in comparison is a more scaring prospect - several orders of magnitude higher - than this novel type of human betacoronavirus meticulously detected by millions of non-standardized (temperature (annealing, denaturation), number of gen-sequences, # of cycles) RT-PCR-Tests daily, worlwide ...
- gww 6y agoPhage can pack host DNA into their capsid which can promotes the spread of antibiotic resistance genes.
- dav_Oz 6y agoI've heard about that, thanks for pointing that out. It can get quite complex when you begin to consider a main mechanism in antibiotic resistance: information flow between other species of bacteria (horizontal gene transfer) + Viruses as significant boosters in evolution with their superpower in living systems to "easily" modify/add huge chunks of DNA/RNA.