methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)

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Superbugs Could Eventually Kill More People Than Cancer

Jason Millman | The Washington Post | December 12, 2014

The world could have a deadly and expensive problem on its hands if the growing fight against antibiotic-resistant bacteria stays on the same track, according to a dire new warning...

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Superbugs: Resistance Isn't Futile But A New Generation Of Antibiotics Is Needed

Staff Writer | The Guardian | July 2, 2014

Not so super, really, but powerful enough to withstand much of what modern medicine has thrown at [superbugs]. That's why David Cameron is calling for a global response to tackle the problem...

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Tracking Deadly Superbug Infections Across Europe with Web-Based Open Tools that Use Genome Sequencing and Open APIs

Press Release | Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute | May 5, 2016

For the first time, scientists have shown that MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) and other antibiotic-resistant ‘superbug’ infections can be tracked across Europe by combining whole-genome sequencing with a web-based system. In mBio today (5 May 2016) researchers at Imperial College London and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute worked with a European network representing doctors in 450 hospitals in 25 countries to successfully interpret and visualise the spread of drug-resistant MRSA...

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Via Farmworkers, Superbugs Find A Route Away From Drug-Using Farms

Maryn McKenna | WIRED | September 21, 2014

...Some studies have shown that bacteria can move off farms in groundwater, on the feet of flies, and via dust on the wind. What is insufficiently explored—because it is difficult to get large meat-production facilities to cooperate—is whether farm workers themselves are serving as a transport vehicle...

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‘Superbug’ Scourge Spreads as U.S. Fails to Track Rising Human Toll

Ryan McNeill, Deborah J. Nelson and Yasmeen Abutaleb | Reuters | September 7, 2016

Fifteen years after the U.S. declared drug-resistant infections to be a grave threat, the crisis is only worsening, a Reuters investigation finds, as government agencies remain unwilling or unable to impose reporting requirements on a healthcare industry that often hides the problem...

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