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Discover the solution to antibiotic resistance – CQ News
Could Central Queensland hold the solution to antibiotic resistance? That’s what vital new research is trying to find out.
The solution to antibiotic resistance could be hiding in our own backyards, with researchers from the University of Queensland studying various soil samples across Australia in the hopes to solve this issue.
The universitys Soils for Science program hopes to create a living library of the different microorganisms found in soils across the country.
Project manager Dr Zeinab Khalil said there was an urgent need for new antibiotics to treat an alarming surge in drug-resistant bacterial and fungal infections.
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