ANTIBIOTICS-RESISTANCE GENES SWELLS IN CHINA
September 1st, 2013
A RECENT study led by a team at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has found that mainland Chinese citizens have 70 antibiotics-resistant genes in their gut microbes, compared with 45 in Denmark and 49 in Spain. While natural genetics might partly explain the gap, antibiotics abuse is the major reason, argued Zhu Baoli, head of the team. “According to our study the most abused antibiotics were tetracycline, penicillin, amoxicillin and erythromycin. Tetracycline actually has been widely used to feed animals in farms,” he said, promoting anti-tetracycline ...
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