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'Superbug' Resistant To 26 Antibiotics Kills A Patient In Nevada

Slashdot: Science - Fetched: January 14th, 2017, 6:00pm UTC

An anonymous reader quotes UPI: A Nevada woman in her 70s who'd recently returned from India died in September from a "superbug" infection that resisted all antibiotics, according to a report released Friday... The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention "basically reported that there was nothing in our medicine cabinet to treat this lady," report co-author Dr. Randall Todd told the Reno Gazette-Journal. He's director of epidemiology and public health preparedness for the Washoe County Health District, in Reno... CDC testing subsequently revealed the germ was New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase -- a highly resistant form of CRE typically found outside the United States. pdiv class="share_submission" style="position:relative;" a class="slashpop" href="http://twitter.com/home?status='Superbug'+Resistant+To+26+Antibiotics+Kills+A+Patient+In+Nevada%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F2jvSJqB"img src="https://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a a class="slashpop" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fscience.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F17%2F01%2F14%2F2035230%2Fsuperbug-resistant-to-26-antibiotics-kills-a-patient-in-nevada%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook"img src="https://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a class="nobg" href="http://plus.google.com/share?url=https://science.slashdot.org/story/17/01/14/2035230/superbug-resistant-to-26-antibiotics-kills-a-patient-in-nevada?utm_source=slashdotamp;utm_medium=googleplus" onclick="javascript:window.open(this.href,'', 'menubar=no,toolbar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,height=600,width=600');return false;"img src="http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Share on Google+"//a /div/ppa href="https://science.slashdot.org/story/17/01/14/2035230/superbug-resistant-to-26-antibiotics-kills-a-patient-in-nevada?utm_source=rss1.0moreanonamp;utm_medium=feed"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~4/H7pTJpkM4nY" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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