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We have arrived in the post-antibiotic era': WHO warns of too few new drugs for deadly superbugs

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Abstract

Late last year, one of Dr. Vance Fowler's patients — a man in his 60s who'd returned to North Carolina from visiting his family in Nepal — died of a bacterial infection. He'd been treated at a top U.S. hospital with access to the strongest antibiotics. But the infection, a drug-resistant strain of E. coli, surged on.
Key Data

  • Publication Date
    29 March 2023
  • Primary Author
    Caroline Hopkins
  • Source
    NBC news
  • Language
    English
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