Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria — Documentary

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Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria — Documentary

Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria

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Super bugs: multiresistant bacteria outbreaks with David E Hoffman
Some keywords: Horizontal gene transfer, gram-negative, multiresistant, antibiotics, super bug

Video: http://video.pbs.org/video/2365104403/
and background information, in depth http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/hunting-the-nightmare-bacteria/
 
Dual-use and antibacterial resistance research?

Making antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains by inserting a plasmid expressing resistance to a specific known antibiotic is routine in most biology research labs.

more? http://www.fas.org/biosecurity/education/dualuse/FAS_Levy/1_A.html