Author: Leah Rosenbaum / Source: Science News
Antibiotic resistance in leeches really sucks.
A bacterium found in leeches’ guts needs exposure to only 0.01 micrograms per milliliter of ciprofloxacin to become resistant to that drug, scientists report July 24 in mBio. That’s about 400 times less than the amount of antibiotics thought to trigger drug resistance in this species of bacteria, says study coauthor Joerg Graf, a biologist at the University of Connecticut in Storrs.
Certain leeches are approved for medical use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration…
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