http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/08/31/harmless-soil-bacteria-are-trading-weapons-with-those-that-kill-us/ Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:00:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/08/31/harmless-soil-bacteria-are-trading-weapons-with-those-that-kill-us/#comment-15829 KN Sat, 01 Sep 2012 07:36:12 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=7536#comment-15829 Based on one of your earlier posts on the effects of antibiotics, it is also possible that this trade, and the ensuing resistance, allows some of our beneficial gut bacteria to stay on after antibiotic ingestion, and thus help us survive. It is an "arms trade" only if you see the microbiome in black and white (i.e the harmless and the harmful). Based on one of your earlier posts on the effects of antibiotics, it is also possible that this trade, and the ensuing resistance, allows some of our beneficial gut bacteria to stay on after antibiotic ingestion, and thus help us survive. It is an “arms trade” only if you see the microbiome in black and white (i.e the harmless and the harmful).

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