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KS4 Starter
What are
these
headlines
about?
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KS4 Activity
MRSA stands for Methicillin resistant
Staphylococcus aureus. It is sometimes
referred to as a ‘superbug’.
It is a bacteria that has become resistant to
antibiotics.
New ways of killing antibiotic-resistant
bacteria have to be found.
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KS4 Activity
What does the experiment
Microbiologists
at Southampton
show?
University
carried out an experiment using MRSA.
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KS4 Activity
What do the
results have to
do with this?
Image: handsome lake @ wikipedia commons
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