Ancient Romanian bacterium shows resistance to ten antibiotics

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A 5,000-year-old bacterium resistant to 10 modern antibiotics was discovered in a Romanian ice cave. Researchers found the ancient microbe, Psychrobacter SC65A.3, in a 25-meter ice core. It exhibits resistance to widely used antibiotics, raising concerns about natural antibiotic resistance evolution. The discovery suggests antibiotic resistance evolved naturally long before modern medicine and could inspire new antimicrobial compounds or industrial enzymes.


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