Antibiotics' Effectiveness on Kids' Ear Infections?

University of Helsinki

A study surveying the genetic variation of a bacterium that causes pneumonia and middle-ear infections in children sheds new light on the transmission and evolution of the species.

Researchers sequenced almost 4,500 bacteria isolated from children in the Mae La refugee camp in north-western Thailand. (Image: Paul Turner)
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