Herbicide-resistant genes that are transferred into crops, and which seem to be positive and advantageous, could also produce superweeds or superbugs if they spread.
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But now we are experiencing drug-resistant strains of infection, which means that the superbugs are winning.
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We are already becoming aware that the over-use of antibiotics in farming generally and in medicine is leading to the arrival of superbugs.
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Lack of ward cleanliness is not the prime cause of hospital-acquired infections or superbugs.
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However, the rise of superbugs that are resistant to conventional antibiotics increases the risk that ear infections will worsen into mastoiditis.
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Certain antibiotic classes are highly associated with colonisation with superbugs compared to other antibiotic classes.
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Even if short term resistance does not develop, many believe that a larger issue is that superbugs will evolve against which no bactericide can be used.
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