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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-10 08:38 AM
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Disease bacteria that resists all antibiotics discovered.
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Edited on Wed Aug-11-10 08:41 AM by Deep13
This is some scary shit, people.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/new-strains-of-bacteria-could-spell-end-of-antibiotics/story-e6frf7lf-1225904132009

There are only two antibiotics that work against NDM 1-producing bacteria, and the likelihood is that they will also be overcome before long.

"In many ways, this is it," Professor Walsh says. "This is potentially the end. There are no antibiotics in the pipeline that have activity against NDM 1-producing Enterobacteriaceae.

"We have a bleak window of maybe 10 years, where we are going to have to use the antibiotics we have very wisely, but also grapple with the reality that we have nothing to treat these infections with.
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