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April Hayes, Microbiologist, Public Health and Sport Sciences, University of Exeter

Growing cocktail of medicines in world’s waterways could be fuelling antibiotic resistance

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Scientists have long been worried about the buildup of antibiotics in the environment.

But in a recent study I led, we wanted to know what happens when bacteria are exposed not just to antibiotics, but to antibiotics and another type of medicine – together, at the low concentrations now typically found in nature.

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