Tuesday, April 1, 2014

New Study Helps Scientists Understand How E. Coli Clone Has Become Globally Distributed

Scientists have come closer to the understanding of how a E. coli clone described as the most important of its kind to cause human infections, has spread across the world in a very short time. iE. coli/i clone ST131 is one of the leading causes of urinary tract and blood stream infections and has crossed the globe at a rapid rate. Worryingly, members of this clone are becoming more resistant to antibiotics. As an indication of scale, more than half of all ...

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