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Dental plaque and jumping genes
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:19:43
Publish Date: 2012-06-26 10:36:07
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What does dental plaque have to do with increasing antimicrobial resistance? Dr Adam Roberts from UCL’s Eastman Dental Institute describes the vast microbial communities that are resident in our mouths, what we know and what we don’t know about them. He discusses his work on mobile genetic elements in oral bacteria and how this is contributing to the increasing problem of antimicrobial resistance.
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