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COVID-19 Lockdowns May Reduce Resistance Genes Diversity in the Human Microbiome and the Need for Antibiotics.
International journal of molecular sciences - 26 Jun 2021
Rebelo João S, Domingues Célia P F, Dionisio Francisco, Gomes Manuel C, Botelho Ana, Nogueira Teresa
Abstract excerpt
Recently, much attention has been paid to the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet bacterial resistance to antibiotics remains a serious and unresolved public health problem that kills hundreds of thousands of people annually, being an insidious and silent pandemic. To contain the spreading of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, populations confined and tightened hygiene measures. We performed this study with computer simulations and by...
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