Microbes in the News


Mutating bacteria challenge medical science

Article synopsis:
Medical science has made amazing advances in this century in combatting disease-causing microbes. But bacteria with their remarkable capability for mutation have found ways to reverse this progress.

Article citation:
"Prokaryotes at the Gate," Discover, August 1994, p. 45.



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