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CDC Report on Pan-Resistant NDM Klebsiella in Nevada– A Sad Tale

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During the past few weeks the case of a patient with MDR Klebsiella infection has made the news. We are told that this particular pathogen is “resistant to 26 antibiotics”. We were informed that the patient had multiple prior hospitalizations in India, supposedly the origin of the uncontrolled untreatable infection. Continue reading CDC Report on Pan-Resistant NDM Klebsiella in Nevada– A Sad Tale→

The Brave New World of Infectious Diseases

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Coming back from ECCMID, one gets the impression that we are moving towards an era in which we can diagnose everything but treat nothing. A late breaker session on colistin resistance provided much detail data on the situation in the EU. As we know, colistin resistance conferred by the mcr-1 gene has Continue reading The Brave New World of Infectious Diseases→