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mchill

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3. My microbiology undergrad lab instructor

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Tue Jan 17, 2023, 06:33 PM

Jan 2023

Said grad students in MB always collect samples from
nature when on exotic travel for other reasons in hopes of finding the next antibiotic. Streptomycin comes from dirt, eg.

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