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Airplane sewage may be helping antibiotic-resistant microbes spread

Around 90 percent of sampled globetrotting E. coli were resistant to at least one drug

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Airplane sewage ends up with a cosmopolitan mix of microbes and the genes that make those bacteria resistant to antibiotic drugs.

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By Carolyn Wilke

- More than 2 years ago

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Sewage from airplanes serves as a melting pot for a globally sourced group of gut microbes.