Acinetobacter baumannii

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Is the Pandemic Interfering With Our Fight Against Drug-Resistant Bacteria?

Mohan P. Joshi, Knowable Magazine 01/03/2021

Overburdened as they are, healthcare facilities have to recognise...

B. cepacia

Explainer: What Is a Healthcare-Associated Infection?

Priyanka Pulla 12/03/2020

This is the first of two explainers associated with...

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No Local Woe, India’s Poor Public Health Feeds Antibiotic Resistance Worldwide

T.V. Padma 13/02/2019

The spread of resistance is more acute in places...

39 tourists swabbed door handles in 136 airports around 59 countries, finding that a deadly bug resistant to antimicrobial drugs and known to exist in India also exists in Paris, where it is rare. Credit: limaoscarjuliet/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

How Researchers Found That Tourists Accidentally Carried a Superbug from India to Paris

K.S. Parthasarathy 15/10/2016

MRSA develops resistance fast enough to keep specialists developing...