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I'm Karen Hopkin.

Hedgehogs are a lot of things.

They're small and spiky, covered in quills.

And some people even say they're cute.

Now, a new study says that they are also the origin of resistance to metacillin, an antibiotic

derived from penicillin.

That pointed observation appears in the journal Nature.

Antibiotic resistance is a huge clinical problem, and metacillin-resistant Staphylococcus

Oreas, otherwise known as MRSA or MRSA, can be difficult to treat,

as many have developed resistance to a handful of our frontline therapeutics.

Historically, it has been assumed that resistance in disease-causing bacteria,

including Stavirus, is a modern phenomenon driven by clinical use of antibiotics. Jesper Larson is a senior scientist at the Staten's Serum Institute in Copenhagen.

Which is the Danish equivalent of the CDC in the US.

Methicillin resistance was thought to be tied to prescription,

in part because metacillin-resistant bugs were first isolated from British hospitals just a year

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