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Letter: Letter

Published 25 January 2003

From Mark Keith-Hill

The approach outlined by Watts, which tackles perhaps the biggest threat to us that exists, seems to have much going for it. However, the article fails to mention any consideration of the effects of such an approach on benevolent bacteria. Among these, I suppose, we should include those bacteria that seem neutral but whose possible beneficial effects we have yet to discover.

Plymouth, Devon, UK

Issue no. 2379 published 25 January 2003

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