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Alarming new "superbug" gene found in animals and people in China

Reuters: Science - Posted: November 18th, 2015, 6:33pm UTC

LONDON, (Reuters) - A new gene that makes bacteria highly resistant to a last-resort class of antibiotics has been found in people and pigs in China - including in samples of bacteria with epidemic potential, researchers said on Wednesday.br clear='all'/img width='1' height='1' src='http://reuters.us.feedsportal.com/c/35217/f/654220/s/4b9ddca7/sc/32/mf.gif' border='0'/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=Nd4H9RF6lj8:AVnz3bfx4j8:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=Nd4H9RF6lj8:AVnz3bfx4j8:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=Nd4H9RF6lj8:AVnz3bfx4j8:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=Nd4H9RF6lj8:AVnz3bfx4j8:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=Nd4H9RF6lj8:AVnz3bfx4j8:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~4/Nd4H9RF6lj8" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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