Study reveals unsettling multidrug antibiotic resistance in remote Arctic soil microbes

(University of Kansas) Analysis of soil samples the University of Kansas' Jennifer Roberts collected in the Kongsfjorden region of Svalbard, Norway, shows antibiotic-resistant genes have transferred into soil-microbe populations in one of Earth's most remote locations.

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