Sunday, 11 September 2016

PRO/AH/EDR> Antibiotic resistance - USA (05): colistin, MCR-1, E. coli, new case, contacts

E. coli -- United States
There is some moderately good news and bad news from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about the new superbug that has been generating concern in the United States and elsewhere.
1st the bad: Another human case of the bug, known as _mcr-1_, has been found in the United States, bringing the total domestic cases so far to 4. The moderately good news: Investigations into 2 of those cases failed to turn up any evidence the bug spread to contacts of the people who were carrying it.

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://bit.ly/2cmrD0U

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