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To: 60Gunner
Most importantly, it must be remembered that C-diff is a living organism and thus subject to mutation and adaptation. Nature has a nasty habit of changing just when we think we have it all figured out

Excellent article! Once again exposing the media's "the sky is falling" mentality.

An interesting aside: Natural Selection theory would indicate that the organisms didn't "develop" anything in response to the antibiotics. Rather, similar other extant species that already are resistant have move to the forefront since their rivals for resources are dying by the billions due to the antibiotics. How that extant species came to exist with a resistance developed to something that didn't exist in nature is any one's guess.

15 posted on 05/29/2008 9:53:29 AM PDT by Ignatz (Enjoying the occasional swede...)
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To: Ignatz

Just another example of how the ‘experts’ fail to consider anything close to everything, but fail to be open to learning anything other than what they needed to pass their tests in medicle school. They seemed to be trapped in what they learned in school, never to develop anything more.


18 posted on 05/29/2008 6:03:05 PM PDT by antonia ("Information is terrain and someone will occupy it.")
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