How A Superbug Traveled The World
Testing Effectiveness of Antibiotics (FDA 096) by The U.S. Food and Drug Administration
License (according to Flickr): United States Government Work
License (according to Flickr): United States Government Work
Just as the name implies, Clostridium difficile is a difficult pathogen to beat. It causes a nasty infection in your gut, and it's often resistant to many antibiotics. But C. difficile got even more troublesome about 10 years ago when a particularly virulent form of the bug cropped up in hospitals across the U. S and was no longer vulnerable to one of the most common classes of antibiotics. These days antibiotic-resistant C. difficile is a superbug that kills nearly 14,000 Americans a year. British geneticists just sequenced a bunch of these C. difficile strains from around the world. And, the genomic data chart how the drug-resistant bacteria arose in North America and then hopped to Europe, Australia and Asia. The findings were just published in the journal Nature Genetics. C. difficile infections usually occur in hospitals when patients have been treated with large doses of antibiotics.
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About 10 years ago, some nasty bacteria became impervious to some common classes of antibiotics. Scientists have sequenced genome samples of this superbug from all over the world. The results helped them figured out how it emerged in the U.S. and then moved to Europe, Australia and Asia.
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