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Are Antibiotics Killing Us? 抗生素会杀死我们吗？ For every cell in your body , you support 10 bacterial cells that make vitamins , trigger hormones , and may even influence how fat you are .Guess what happens to them when you pop penicillin ? 我们身体里的每一个细胞来说，10个菌细胞就可以形成维生素，引发荷尔蒙，甚至可能影响你的体形。当你身体里有流行青霉素时这些细胞会有什么变化呢？ By Jessica Snyder Sachs 杰西卡?斯奈德?扎克斯著 Alan Hudson , who has a microbiology laboratory at Wayne State Medical School in Detroit , likes to tell a story about a soldier and his high school sweetheart. 哈德森在底特律的韦恩州立大学医学院有自己的微生物实验室，他总是很乐意讲关于一个士兵和他高中的情人的故事。 The young man returns from an overseas assignment for their wedding with a clean bill of health , having dutifully cleared up an infection of sexually transmitted Chlamydia . 一个年轻的男人全心全意地清除掉了体内的性传播感染衣原体，带着一份无疫证明书从他的外派工作中回来去参加他们的婚礼 “Three weeks later , the wife has a screaming genital infection ,” Hudson recounts , “and I get a call from the small-town doctor who’s trying to save their marriage.” The soldier , it seems , has decided his wife must have been seeing other men , which she denies . “三周后，这个妻子得上了惊人的生殖器感染”哈德森叙述到。“并且我接到了一个来自一个小乡镇医生的电话，他正在极力抢救他们的婚姻”这个士兵似乎怀疑他的妻子见了其他的男人，但是他的妻子坚决否认。 Hudson pauses for effect , “the doctor is convinced she’s telling the truth,” he continues, folding his hands behind a sweep of white , collar-length hair . “This is done after the couple has completed a full course of antibiotic treatment and tested free of infection . 哈德森为了效果稍作停顿，“这个医生坚信她说的是真的”他继续说道，这时他的手在他的白花花的头发后面合拢了起来。“这发生在这对夫妇完成了全套抗生素治疗和免费测试之后。” “I PCR’em both,” Hudson says , “and he is red hot.” “我考虑了他们双方聚合酶链反应的可能性，并且他是很猛烈的”哈德森说 PCR stands for polymerase chain reaction- a technique developed about 20 years ago that allows many copies of a DNA may be available . Hudson’s use of the technique allowed him to find traces of Chlamydia DNA in the soldier and his wife that traditional tests miss because the amount left after antibiotic treatment is small and asymptomatic . Nonetheless , if a small number of