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A New Way to Track How Deadly 'Superbugs' Travel Could Slow Their Spread
Description: Killer bacteria - ones that have out-evolved our best antibiotics - may not go away anytime soon. But a new approach to tracking their spread could eventually give us a fighting chance against them. Using a real-world outbreak as a test case, a research team has combined patient transfer data and whole-genome sequencing to identify hot spots for antibiotic-resistant bacteria transmission. [Source: University of Michigan]
URL: https://labblog.uofmhealth.org/health-tech/a-new-way-to-track-how-deadly-superbugs-travel-could-slow-their-spread
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Source: University of Michigan
Publish Date: 11/22/2017
Reading Level: Basic
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