An international team of scientists headed by researchers at the University of Cambridge has found evidence that a type of antibiotic-resistant superbug, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ...
A strain of the antibiotic-resistant bacterium MRSA seems to have evolved in hedgehogs in the early 1800s – long before the introduction of antibiotics. The finding demonstrates how antibiotic ...
Hedgehogs carry a fungus and a bacteria on their skin, and the two are locked in a battle for survival The fungus secretes antibiotics to kill the bacteria, but in response the bacteria has evolved ...