Scientists from the Institut Pasteur have recently revealed the cause behind the emergence in the 1960s of neonatal infections due to group B streptococcus. These findings, published in Nature Communications on August 4, 2014, prove that the sudden emergence of infections caused by this bacterium resulted from the widespread use of an antibiotic, tetracycline, from the 1950s onwards.Oh me, oh my.
Saturday, April 9, 2016
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The emergence of neonatal group B streptococcal infections explained