Andy Champ wrote:
On 21/02/2013 23:44, Steve Firth wrote:
wrote:
On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 00:07:56 GMT, just as I was about to take a herb,
lid (Windmill) disturbed my reverie and
wrote:
They say that antibiotic resistance can even be spread from one type of
bacterium to another.
It is a fact, not a 'they say'.
Perhaps you could explain the mechanism of this fact?
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It's a fact. It's not even an obscure one, and I'm surprised you haven't come across it.
What makes you think I haven't come across it? I was manipulating plasmids
and transferring antibiotic resistance between species in the 1970s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_gene_transfer
Grandmother, eggs.
Clearly what you missed is that the pompous fang mangler didn't have a
clue.
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