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A super-bacterium resists all antibiotics in the United States

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Le 19h30
27 May 2016

Didier Pittet

HUG

Médecine, UNIGE

American health authorities have announced the first case of a patient with an infection that is resistant to all known antibiotics. Overprescription of antibiotics is being blamed.

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