Published today in Genome Research, the study examined a large collection of E. coli isolated from patients with bloodstream
infection over more than a decade, some of which were resistant to numerous antibiotics while others were not.
Not exact matches
Over the past
decade, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported a substantial increase in incidence of opportunistic premise plumbing pathogens, with Pseudomonas alone accounting for 51,000 hospitalizations per year with
more than 6,000 multi-drug resistant
infections in 2011.
LYME DISEASE: Lyme disease is a debilitating tick - borne disease in which dogs are 50 %
more susceptible
than humans, with new
infections doubling
over the last
decade.