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Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Found In Four Million-Year-Old Cave
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| 4-12-2012
| Alexander Besant
Posted on 04/12/2012 5:42:31 PM PDT by blam
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posted on
04/12/2012 5:42:44 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
The scientists involved collected 93 strains of bacteria from Lechuguilla cave, approximately 1300 feet deep, and found that all the strains collected were resistant to at least one antibiotic out of the 26 tested with some resistant to up to 14 different types, reported the Los Angeles Times. My bet is that 93 strains of surface bacteria would have a similar resistance profile.
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posted on
04/12/2012 5:44:49 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Over half of U.S. murders are of black people, and 90% of them are committed by other black people.)
To: blam
Could that mean that the genes for resistance to antibiotics were always there?
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posted on
04/12/2012 5:45:54 PM PDT
by
Westbrook
(Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
To: blam
More ammunition to use against those who claim that bacteria is evolving. The truth is that some bacteria is naturally resistant to antibiotics.
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posted on
04/12/2012 5:47:28 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.)
To: Westbrook
it depends if they were Levi’s or Wranglers.
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posted on
04/12/2012 5:48:45 PM PDT
by
GreyFriar
(Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
To: Westbrook
Could that mean that the genes for resistance to antibiotics were always there? If was say that it was, then we can't blame it on people for using antibiotics, so no.
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posted on
04/12/2012 5:48:45 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Over half of U.S. murders are of black people, and 90% of them are committed by other black people.)
To: blam
Please, no Michelle jokes.
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posted on
04/12/2012 5:51:22 PM PDT
by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(A conservative, a liberal and a moderate walk into a bar. Bartender says "what'll it be, Mitt?")
To: blam
I had mrsa in my spine requiring three surguries in 3 months. I thought this was a decimon post. Anyone seen him lately??
To: Westbrook
I think the suggestion is that there are natural antibiotics out there that have caused resistance in these bacteria. This is a good thing because it means that we can “discover” more naturally occurring antibiotics that may be beneficial.
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posted on
04/12/2012 5:58:22 PM PDT
by
outofstyle
(Down All the Days)
To: Westbrook
If true it means they will be weaponized in short order. There are just too many people, they are giving Al’s planet a fever.
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posted on
04/12/2012 5:59:30 PM PDT
by
itsahoot
(I will not vote for Romney period, and by election day you won't like him either.)
To: goseminoles
" I thought this was a decimon post. Anyone seen him lately?? "Don't know anything.
A search shows that decimon posted last on January 21, 2012.
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posted on
04/12/2012 6:12:51 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam; neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; Global2010; ...
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posted on
04/12/2012 6:28:24 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 1178 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
To: blam
Weird. Prayers his way if need be..
To: outofstyle
I think all the current antibiotics are based on natural antibiotics discovered in various organisms.
There are machines screening millions of compounds for antibiotic, antitumor and other medicinal virtues.
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posted on
04/12/2012 6:48:58 PM PDT
by
dangerdoc
(see post #6)
To: blam
Didn’t the X-Files movie begin this way?
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posted on
04/12/2012 6:50:54 PM PDT
by
Oratam
To: blam
Scientists discovering bacteria millions of years old that are not vulnerable to modern medicine, somehow that plot rings a bell.
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posted on
04/12/2012 6:51:32 PM PDT
by
dangerdoc
(see post #6)
To: outofstyle
Yet, given the age and isolation of the cave, said Time, drug resistance may also have other causes. Yes, but if the bacteria is already resistant - then we'd find what we already have... right?
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posted on
04/12/2012 7:13:21 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Hoodies - because you can't kill a security camera for snitchin' - - freeper tacticalogic)
To: Quix
This is just strange enough that I thought you’d enjoy it. Hope you’re feeling better - you’re in my prayers.
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posted on
04/12/2012 7:14:38 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Hoodies - because you can't kill a security camera for snitchin' - - freeper tacticalogic)
To: outofstyle
Just about all antibiotics are derived from bacteria or fungi.
very few are just “chemical conglomerations” Supposedly this
is due to the chemical wars going on between competing
microorganisms and we are using weapons which the
bacteria and fungus have already. (As a sidebar, does that mean that war is “natural”
and just like any behaviour which is overlooked cuz it is
“natural”, is war OK too? Should we accept the diversity that
is present with warlike folk?)
As far as resistance goes, most of the genetic information
is present in the world (pre human antibiotic development),
sometimes, it is passed on through
viral transmission of the gene, or by “bacterial” sex(there is
a way for bacteria to inject part of it’s genome into a
different bacteria) or rearrangement of genes already present.
Or by plasmids....From my understanding of this
subject, there may be some genome which develops
new genes which code for “resistance”, but it is certainly
not the main way “resistance” occurs. Since we didn’t know
the bacterial genomes before, we don’t know if the
resistance genes are new developments, at least yet.
The main reason why they say that resistance “develops” is
cuz it is now noticed to a greater extent than what was
thought previously.
Everyone talks about MRSA (i.e. methicillin resistant
staph aureus)...but when the drug methicillin first was
introduced in the early 60’s..there were already resistant
organisms...they just hadn’t spread around to the point
where they were clinically significant...Now they is.
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posted on
04/12/2012 7:15:45 PM PDT
by
Getready
(Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
To: blam
The discovery of antibiotic resistant bacteria in an isolated cave... Now ya did it!
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posted on
04/12/2012 7:16:38 PM PDT
by
386wt
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