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Filipa Godoy studies the bacterial populations found in the cervix of Puerto Rican women to develop potential treatment for cervical cancer

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Dr. Filipa Godoy, scientist at Interamerican University talks about her research in microbiology.

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The dark side of hand sanitizers

Submitted on 8 March 2013 - 5:26pm

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The use of antimicrobial hand sanitizers has been on the rise around the world and in Puerto Rico. Instead of protecting people, their overuse could lead to antibiotic resistance and the evolution of new "bugs" that could be harder to control...

The author is a doctoral candidate in environmental microbiology at the University of Arizona and a member of Ciencia Puerto Rico.

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