19 Oct 2006
Cattle protozoa help shift antibiotic resistance

I wonder if it every occurred to these guys that you wouldn't get antibiotic resistant bacteria in cattle if you weren't stuffing cattle with antibiotics in the first place?

Scientists in Ames, Iowa, have made another big finding about protozoa, single-celled predatory organisms, found in the gastrointestinal tract of cattle.

(link) [The Prairie Star]

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