Antibiotic resistance among germs swells during droughts, study suggests
via nature.com
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For as long as we’ve known that soil bacteria manufacture molecular weapons to fight each other, we’ve been swiping their battle plans. In clinics and hospitals, those turf-war weapons have become miraculous drugs of modern medicine—antibiotics—that blow away otherwise deadly infections. But, of course, there’s a dark side of mimicking microbial munitions—bacteria have defenses, too, […]