Resistance to Popular Antibiotic Likely Began Years Before Human Use

THURSDAY, Nov. 30, 2017 -- Bacterial resistance to the antibiotic ampicillin may have begun years before doctors started prescribing it in the early 1960s, a new study suggests. Ampicillin, a broad-spectrum penicillin, is widely used to treat many...
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