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How climate change may increase antibiotic resistance

Climate-related warming and droughts could encourage bacteria to share resistance genes

A field showing soil that's dry and cracked from drought, which may increase antibiotic resistance

Warming and drought could increase antibiotic resistance among soil microbes and that could pose risks to human health, two studies suggest.

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By Erin Garcia de Jesús

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Climate change could increase hard-to-treat bacterial infections, two studies suggest.