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...researchers tested a diverse class of 18 antibiotics and found that most could sustain bacteria from 11 different types of soils...
While looking for bacteria living in the soil that could remove toxins from cellulose and other decaying plant matter, the researchers used antibiotics as an experimental control and discovered that many strains of bacteria were able to survive on antibiotics as their sole source of carbon...
...high school kid could do this experiment,” Church said, “but there wasn’t a lot of literature on it. We realized people don’t normally culture bacteria this...
...Lewis, a professor of biology at Northeastern, said that the underlying hypothesis of this paper suggests that the properties of soil bacteria that allow them to grow on antibiotics also allow them to resist antibiotics in more complex environments, like in an organism...
...study indicates that humans should be careful about toxins that are added into the soil—like the antibiotics given to agricultural livestock—because some of the bacteria could become increasingly resistant to antibiotic therapies...