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Maggots under microscope for superbug-killing secretions

Reuters: Science - Posted: October 18th, 2016, 6:49am UTC

Maggots could help tackle the looming crisis of antibacterial resistance, according to researchers from Swansea University, who found that certain molecules in the secretions of green bottle fly maggots are highly effective at killing some species of bacteria.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=GyQDX_QQdpE:eHENy7KofV8:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=GyQDX_QQdpE:eHENy7KofV8:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=GyQDX_QQdpE:eHENy7KofV8:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=GyQDX_QQdpE:eHENy7KofV8:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=GyQDX_QQdpE:eHENy7KofV8:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~4/GyQDX_QQdpE" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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