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This is ‘survival of the fittest’ in action
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MacFadden, D. R., et al., ‘Antibiotic resistance increases with local temperature’, Nature Climate Change, 8 (6), 2018: 510–14, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0161-6.the rate at which antibiotic resistance … correlated with climate
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infections … shown to increase during warmer months
Burnham, J. P., ‘Climate change and antibiotic resistance: a deadly combination’, herapeutic Advances in Infectious Disease, 8, 2021: Article 2049936121991374, https://doi.org/10.1177%2F2049936121991374.NDM-1 typically resides in a mobile set of genes
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