f mobile DNA sequences capable of transferring themselves from one piece of DNA chromosome to another recipient. These transposons may also be picked up by a bacteriophage, but unlike plasmids, transposons alone cannot replicate, and must be sustained within a plasmid or chromosome.[8]
             Perhaps most ominous, some strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, have become resistant to a series of antibiotics.[11] So now just having enough money to buy antibiotics no longer guarantees a cure. Tuberculosis was once highly responsive to antibiotics. But th
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